# If On A Winter's Night A Traveller

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- Book: [If on a Winter's Night a Traveller](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino/if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveller) ([If on a Winter's Night a Traveller.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino/if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveller.md))
- Authors: [Italo Calvino](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-138-1
- Pages: 296
- Published: 1993-05-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy 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 is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of same book - IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT by Italo Calvino - are constantly and comically frustrated. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS of our day