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Books : If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 853.914
EAN: 9780679420255
ISBN: 0679420258
Label: Everyman's Library
Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: June 01, 1993
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date: June 01, 1993
Studio: Everyman's Library
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: "Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.
The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches--stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition--with explorations of how and why we read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space."
Product Description:
Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver
Rating:
- Calvino's Masterpiece
A meta-novel that skillfully explores a variety of narrative styles, with shifting perspectives and voices.
Rating: - "I read, therefore it (the world) writes"
I'd flopped on a bed in a luxury hotel in Amman, Jordan last spring and flipped through a magazine, landing on page with little blurbs about about books. I was intriuged by a couple of titles. One was a book about the international sex slave trade (still not available in the USA until this fall) and the second was IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER.
The little blurb said this book had ten Chapter Ones. You read that right. One book, ten first chapters.
I wrote these titles ... Read More
Rating: - If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
This superb work of fiction is a bit confusing at first but totally engrossing as you get into it. It is the first book I've ever run across in which the author tells the reader what the reader is doing, making the reader the lead character in the story.
It's unusual style, combined with a truly original plot that is both entertaining and thought provoking at the same time, make IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER a truly wonderful book and heartily good read.
Rating: - Entertaining and Ingenious
Yes, this book requires thought to fully understand. However, it is not tedious, as some have claimed it is. It's ingenuity and novelty keep it entertaining, even at parts that otherwise would be boring. Regardless, it will definitely change the way you think about literature, writing, and reading (if you're a casual reader and not an academic, of course).
Rating:
- Creative and Complex
Calvino's 'If On a Winter's Night a Traveler' is a wonderfully complex literary dip into post-modernity in which the author distances the narrative and holds it under a fractured telescope. The plot is a peculiar combination of stories told with a cool detachment which all eventually converge with the two readers, who are in truth the protagonists of the story. This does not make for easy reading, and it's nearly impossible to get it all the first time through, but Calvino's remarkable command of ideas ... Read More
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by: Italo Calvino
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Dewey Decimal Number: 853.914
EAN: 9780679420255
ISBN: 0679420258
Label: Everyman's Library
Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: June 01, 1993
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date: June 01, 1993
Studio: Everyman's Library
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: "Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.
The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches--stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition--with explorations of how and why we read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. "What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space."
Product Description:
Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver
Average Rating:
Rating:
- Calvino's MasterpieceA meta-novel that skillfully explores a variety of narrative styles, with shifting perspectives and voices.
Rating:
- "I read, therefore it (the world) writes"I'd flopped on a bed in a luxury hotel in Amman, Jordan last spring and flipped through a magazine, landing on page with little blurbs about about books. I was intriuged by a couple of titles. One was a book about the international sex slave trade (still not available in the USA until this fall) and the second was IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER.
The little blurb said this book had ten Chapter Ones. You read that right. One book, ten first chapters.
I wrote these titles ... Read More
Rating:
- If On a Winter's Night a TravellerThis superb work of fiction is a bit confusing at first but totally engrossing as you get into it. It is the first book I've ever run across in which the author tells the reader what the reader is doing, making the reader the lead character in the story.
It's unusual style, combined with a truly original plot that is both entertaining and thought provoking at the same time, make IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER a truly wonderful book and heartily good read.
Rating:
- Entertaining and IngeniousYes, this book requires thought to fully understand. However, it is not tedious, as some have claimed it is. It's ingenuity and novelty keep it entertaining, even at parts that otherwise would be boring. Regardless, it will definitely change the way you think about literature, writing, and reading (if you're a casual reader and not an academic, of course).
Rating:
- Creative and ComplexCalvino's 'If On a Winter's Night a Traveler' is a wonderfully complex literary dip into post-modernity in which the author distances the narrative and holds it under a fractured telescope. The plot is a peculiar combination of stories told with a cool detachment which all eventually converge with the two readers, who are in truth the protagonists of the story. This does not make for easy reading, and it's nearly impossible to get it all the first time through, but Calvino's remarkable command of ideas ... Read More
Arts & Photography • Biographies & Memoirs • Business & Investing • Children's Books • Comics & Graphic Novels • Computers & Internet • Cooking, Food & Wine • Entertainment • Gay & Lesbian • Health, Mind & Body • History • Home & Garden • Law • Literature & Fiction • Medicine • Mystery & Thrillers • Nonfiction • Outdoors & Nature • Parenting & Families • Professional & Technical • Reference • Religion & Spirituality • Romance • Science • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Teens • Travel •
