«If on a winter's night a traveler» in Italian with a Parallel Translation
Original title:
Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
Genres:
Language:
Italian
Difficulty:
B1
Year:
1979
Number of pages:
180
"If on a winter's night a traveler" is a postmodern novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino, published in 1979. The protagonist of the novel is a Reader who buys the book "If on a winter's night a traveler". The book turns out to be defective, so the Reader goes to change it. The following text also turns out to be defective, so the Reader and his new acquaintance are trying to find the full texts of the novels. Calvino's work contains many allusions to famous novels, but according to the plot, all but one of the texts are fictional.
