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If on a winter’s night a traveler

May 13, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: The reader picks up the latest novel by Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler – but a few pages in, his reading is interrupted because of a printer’s error. Flummoxed, he attempts to retrieve the whole book and falls into a strange, seemingly-never-ending pattern of getting the first bits of a story without anything more to show for it. The Review: I’ve known about this book ever since reading Cloud Atlas, largely because of David Mitchell’s […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, BookClub, Books, Fiction, If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino, Literature, Metafiction, Post-modernism, Reading, Reviews, Writing

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