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645 words, approx. 2 pages
 If on a winter's night a traveler (Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) is a novel published in 1979 by Italo Calvino. This book is about a reader trying to read a book called If on a winter's night a traveler. The first chapter and every odd-numbered... 
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 Iowa Review Night Travel
04/01/2007: 815 words, approx. 3 pages I. A World War II veteran, on emergency room stretcher, told me He was deep in the ravine the night of Roosevelt's stroke: He heard it on his hand-held radio, the night was damp, And in grief he dropped his... summary from source:
The Economist (US) The Night Travellers.
08/17/1991: 358 words, approx. 1 pages "HILDA was three months pregnant and contentment radiated from her as if she were a small stove." And: "She had worked hard all her life, she could have stopped now, but she couldn't stop now." Walker Percy, another southern writer, has described the...
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 Critical Essay by Frank Macshane
1,081 words, approx. 4 pages
"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." With these words, which open his latest novel, Calvino confronts the relationship of the world of fiction to the world of actuality. The rest of his book shows how the fictive imagination interacts with reality and how each is dependent on the other. Calvino takes Descartes a step further: "The univers... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Olga Ragusa
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Like a play within a play, Calvino's [Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore] is both double and dual. Eleven chapters and ten incipits, the beginnings of as many unrelated, interrupted "novels," form one whole. The frame story is about nothing less than "ce vice impuni, la lecture," the pleasure of vicarious experience or of escape offered by the printed page and the many circumstances that contribute to it or stand in its way. In the early chapters we get an almost... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Gilbert Sorrentino
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If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino's version (and anti-version) of the nouveau roman, fits the conditions for "proper art" proposed by Dedalus/Joyce: "The mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing." It is a wonderful piece of work, labyrinthine and convoluted, informed by a deadpan humor and pastiches, imitations, and parodies of an entire battery of modern and postmodern literary techniques. It begins with an almost conventional storytelle...
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 Essay Grade: 92%If on a Winters Night a Traveller
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Analyzes If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, by Italo Calvino. Discusses the ways in which Calvino's novel links with concepts of Postmodernism. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 92%
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