If on a winter's night a traveler / Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver ; with an introduction by Peter Washington
By: Calvino, Italo.
Contributor(s): Weaver, William.
Series: Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1993Distributor: New York : Distributed by Random House 1993Description: xli, 254 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780679420255.Uniform titles: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore. English Subject(s): Italian fictionGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | PQ4809.A45 S3713 1993 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000008192 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-xxvii)
If on a winter's night a traveler -- Outside the town of Malbork -- Leaning from the steep slope -- Without fear of wind or vertigo -- Looks down in the gathering shadow -- In a network of lines that enlace -- In a network of lines that intersect -- On the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon -- Around an empty grave -- What story down there awaits its end?
Based on a analogy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, this book is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book are constantly and comically frustrated