If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
The novel is a postmodernist narrative that follows the adventures of the reader, who is trying to read a book called "If on a Winter's Night a Traveller." However, the reader keeps encountering obstacles that prevent him from finishing the book, including printer's errors, censorship, and interruptions from other characters. The story is interspersed with the beginnings of ten different novels, each interrupted at a moment of suspense. The book is a meditation on reading, writing, and the nature of narrative itself.
The 244th greatest book of all time
- Published
- 1979
- Nationality
- Italian
- Type
- Fiction
- Pages
- 200-300
- Words
- 56,000
- Original Language
- Italian
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- 69th on The Telegraph’s 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (Telegraph)
- 72nd on 100 Best Books (Montana State University)
- 82nd on The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time: The List (The Observer)
- 96th on Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Novels (Entertainment Weekly)
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- 50 Best Cult Books (Telegraph)
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