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A review by jennygaitskell
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
5.0
This rule-breaking novel played wonderful tricks on me. It teased me as a reader, pricking holes in every expectation, including those it'd encouraged.
You're two second person heroes, who fall in love with the beginning of a novel and are desperate to find the end. The hunt leads you to meet eccentric characters, who each give you another novel they believe to be the one you want. You read a series of contrasting and intriguing, but false, starts. Never fear, just as you're really getting frustrated, you'll start finding clues to the absurd history behind them all and may even guess the climax (perhaps not the final kicker).
This is a book for the brain, rather than the heart, but a work of such mastery that I often found my mouth hanging open (even in public). One for my inspiration shelf.
You're two second person heroes, who fall in love with the beginning of a novel and are desperate to find the end. The hunt leads you to meet eccentric characters, who each give you another novel they believe to be the one you want. You read a series of contrasting and intriguing, but false, starts. Never fear, just as you're really getting frustrated, you'll start finding clues to the absurd history behind them all and may even guess the climax (perhaps not the final kicker).
This is a book for the brain, rather than the heart, but a work of such mastery that I often found my mouth hanging open (even in public). One for my inspiration shelf.