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If on a winter night a traveler
If on a winter night a traveler
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Reading is a step toward something that is going to happen, and no one knows what it is;
Regardless, this is a novel that once you start, you won't be able to put it down.
Regardless, this is a novel that once you start, you won't be able to put it down.
The most famous non-existent novel in history.
On the 40th anniversary of its publication, the first literal translation into Italian is "If on a Winter Night, a Traveler".
Italo Calvino's most popular masterpieces
Metafiction and postmodern literature classics
Yang Zhao/Introduction to the article
The British "Daily Telegraph" hailed it as "one of the top 100 classic novels you must read in your lifetime"
One day, you bought a copy of Itaro Calvino's novel "If on a Winter Night, a Traveler" in a bookstore. When you were immersed in the story, suddenly the plot on the next page was completely different from the previous one, so you took it You go back to replace the wrongly bound book, only to find that the replaced book is not the one you expected. In this way, a curious reader loses his way into the story every time he steps into the beginning of a strange novel; at the climax, when he turns over, there are two blank pages... You collapse, but when you return to the bookstore, The clerk pointed to another girl who also came to exchange books. You, who had always read alone, were shocked to discover the existence of another "reader".
It is only during the journey between two places that people feel isolated. Since yesterday, things have been different. Reading is no longer a solitary thing. You think about the female reader who happened to be opening the book at this moment, so the novel in front of you becomes one with the novel that may be played out in your life.
Reader, who are you? "If on a Winter Night, a Traveler" is not a novel, but contains ten novels with different plots, forms, styles, and even authors, "embedded" in a second-person narrative reading journey, forming a labyrinth of words. It is all-encompassing and imaginative; in addition, through two "readers" each chasing the whereabouts of the story, reading together is no longer a lonely thing. The pursuit of the story actually developed into a male reader's pursuit of another female reader, completely subverting the relationship between the reader and the text. The possibilities of the story also unfolded unexpectedly in the author's writing, and he wrote the most popular legend among readers. classic. Establishing a peak that cannot be surpassed so far is also the summary of the author's lifelong creation and transcendence in the narrative form of novels.
Since its first edition in 1979, this epoch-making novel with the reader as the protagonist has become a masterpiece of meta-novel. Calvino once said: "Literature is a game, even a serious game." Can't you write novels that don't exist? Does every story have to have a beginning and an ending? From form to content, its unique designs not only attract readers' attention, but also open up a new literary starting point, so that readers must actively participate in the production of the meaning of the novel.
On the journey of reading. Rebuilding lost connections.
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