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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library...
by Italo Calvino
“The hypermeta novel of novels!”
Comments (5)
Nov 25, 2010, 10:43 AM
etternal, a 45-year-old woman in Niceville
“Yes, and about the literary prizes - we need another website!(Smile)There are too many different prizes now and so little the real talents!”
Nov 25, 2010, 10:20 AM
etternal, a 45-year-old woman in Niceville
“... to debate! About what are you talking, signor N.! Haahhaha! First, I need to find this book, here, in Russia!
Maybe someday. Well, thanks anyway!”
Nov 24, 2010, 9:08 PM
WritingandReading, a 52-year-old man in Alexandria
“Well Natasha
I agree that Calvino is not for everyone and this book is very "experimental" in that it is squarley in the Metafiction vein... However, i have not read the other italians you mention. Of Calvino I can say that the year Marquez won the Nobel, Calvino was also nominated. I believe that this novel attempts to create a superr structure of reading and the novel, and to include the reader as a character, though it is a decidedly male "reader" character as you will see. I hope you enjoy it.”
Nov 24, 2010, 6:44 PM
etternal, a 45-year-old woman in Niceville
“Hello! I'm Natasha. I'm new here.
Tell me, please, really "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" ...novel of novels?
I read a little of the modern Italians (Andrea De Carlo"Uto",T.Landolfi "Autunno storia" and G.Culicchia "Tutti giu per terra"). Of these 3 only Tommaso surprised. Now I plan to read Calvino. This is the classic, of course. But there is not a lot of good translations into Russian from Italian.
By the way, I'm from Russia. The server does not missed a code of Moscow and I had cheated it. Here's a precedent! But all from the love of art! (Smile) Believe me.
Ciao!”
Jan 7, 2011, 3:08 PM
fontissimo, a 63-year-old woman in Santa Fe
“...and don't overlook "The Cloven Viscount.." darkly twisted in the most delightful way.”