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Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.

The first complete English-language edition of one of Calvino's important early short story collections

Throughout his stories, Calvino delights in discovering hidden truths beneath the surface of everyday life. Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the tales in this collection take place in a World War II-era and postwar Italy tinged with visionary and fablelike qualities. Three novice burglars accidentally break into a pastry shop; a pair of children trespass upon a forbidden garden; a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock...

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...

Kabinettstücke der italienischen Märchenliteratur

Ninetta entdeckt einen geheimen Garten, in dem sich der Königssohn unsterblich in sie verliebt. Ein junges Mädchen muss ihr Elternhaus verlassen, weil sie vom Pech verfolgt wird, Pippina wird mit einem Fluch belegt und verwandelt sich, von der Sonne berührt, in eine Schlange. Caterina die Kluge überlistet ihren Ehemann, damit er bei ihr bleibt. Und eine junge Fürstin wird mithilfe ihres Dieners ihren geizigen Gatten los. Sie alle müssen sich den Herausforderungen stellen, die das Leben ihnen aufgibt, ehe sie...