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Description
A postmodern novel which combines a love and a detective story with a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in an allegory of reading. Two readers attempt to finish the same book, but are comically and repeatedly frustrated.
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First Sentence
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Table of Contents
Chapter One
If on a winter's night a traveler
Chapter Two
Outside the town of Malbork
Chapter Three
Leaning from the steep slope
Chapter Four
Withoutfear of wind or vertigo
Chapter Five
Looks down into the gathering shadow
Chapter Six
In a network of lines that enlace
Chapter Seven
In a network of lines that intersect
Chapter Eight
On the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon
Chapter Nine
Around an empty grave
Chapter Ten
What story down there awaits its end?
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Authors & Contributors
- Italo Calvino (Author)
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