If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Ranked #7 in Italian, Ranked #8 in Postmodernism — see more rankings.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration—"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an... more
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is ranked in the following categories:
- #33 in Cuban
- #14 in Italy
- #86 in Magical Realism
- #83 in Surrealism
- #42 in Translated
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