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Item number:200394675219
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Author: Italo CalvinoFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: HarcourtISBN-10: 0151436894
ISBN-13: 9780151436897Subject: --
Publication Year: 1981Topic: --
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Calvino's anti-novel is about the efforts of his two characters--a man called only The Reader, and the Other Reader, a woman named Ludmilla--to read ten very different novels. They are never able to get to the second chapter of any of them; nor are the actual readers of this novel, who share their puzzlement and frustration--as well as their delight in the situation. Finally, the two marry and settle down to read in bed--a novel called IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER by Italo Calvino. Among other things, Calvino insists that novels cannot be a form of "escape" from the world, because reading and life are inseparable. The text provides an examination of the different ways of reading and of the expectations of different kinds of readers; it is also an exploration of the relationship between the writer and the reader.

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Length:288 pages

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Ten different and thoroughly dissimilar novels intertwine as the beginning of each book, interrupted at a critical moment of suspense, leads into yet another novel reflecting yet another literary mode.

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"Calvino's real subject is fiction. The making of it...and the reading of it....He can be comic, and he is, but for the most part he is serious, positive, celebratory. ...He even includes a description of his novel in the novel. One notes it, with amusement. And then one comes upon another description of it, different but equally persuasive. And then another! It can never be satisfied, the mind, never."
Nation - John D. O'Hara (05/23/1981)

"...Each novel beginning melts into a flux of macaronic effects that refuse to tell stories, stultifying paragraphs beyond recall five minutes after reading, and of such brain-grinding boredom that it is impossible for the reader to keep his head upright."
Saturday Review - Donald Newlove (05/19/1981)

"The most astounding inventive novel I've come across in a long time."
New York Times Book Review - Francine Du Plessix Gray 

"A wonderful piece of work...Brilliant...Great imaginative power and artistic authority."
Washington Post - Gilbert Sorrentino 


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