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Published: 20/02/1992
Clever, seductive and infinitely sly, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller takes readers on a dizzying journey into a novel they never expected – with themselves cast in the role of the hero.
You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy.
You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again.
This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest. But the real hero is you, the reader.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099430896
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 192 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 16 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Ingenious - Mail on Sunday
Breathtakingly inventive
The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century - Guardian
Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before.This is highly unnerving: fortunately you're usually too busy laughing to go mad... I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends
A devastating, wonderfully ingenious parody of all those dreary best-sellers you buy at the airport... It is a "world novel": take it with you next time you plan to travel in an armchair - Observer
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“If on a Winter's Night a Traveller”
I personally didn't understand what this book was about, and didn't particularly enjoy the writing either....I wouldn't recommend this to anyone
“Failed to captivate.”
After reading the cover and the opening chapter in the shop, intrigued by its unique plot, I bought it and couldn't wait to start.
Excitedly, I put my current read to one side and began reading this. However,...
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“10/10, would marry this book.”
This isn't the sort of book you read on the tube, or the bus, or in your lunch break. You have to be in the right mood, I'd recommend reading it under a pleasantly hot sun or whilst in love (or something).... More
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