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Title details for If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino - Wait list

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino
William Weaver
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"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel ... Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade."—from If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino's singular novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before—offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense.
Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers pursue the story lines that intrigue them and try to read each other. Deeply profound and surprisingly romantic, this classic is a beautiful meditation on the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives.
"Calvino is a wizard ... There is no halting [this book's] metamorphoses."—New York Times Review of Books

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  • Release date

    August 1, 2017

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781501963155
      • File size: 287546 KB
      • Duration: 09:59:03

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      At first, you may not think that a novel renowned for telling its listener "you walk into a bookshop" would translate naturally to the audiobook format. But Jefferson Mays's initial narration heightens the novel's sense of postmodern irony. You aren't walking into a bookshop when you read the book, and you don't even have a book when you listen to the audiobook. Unfortunately, this is as far as the audiobook takes the novel, for, though his talent is evident, Mays's thespian grandeur often overshadows the novel's subtlety. Overall, his narration neglects Calvino's European self-parody, instead delivering a slightly pompous flair that may lead you to put down the proverbial book and leave the bookshop. Z.S. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

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