(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver
Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an
exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the
book's central character.
Based on a witty analogy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the
lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A
TRAVELER is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of
the same book--IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER, by Italo Calvino, of
course--are constantly and comically frustrated. In between