PublishedEveryman, May 1993 |
ISBN9781857151381 |
FormatSoftcover, 296 pages |
Dimensions21.2cm × 13.5cm × 2.3cm |
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
