Kube reviewed If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
I love this book so much
5 stars
Gosh dangit, now here's a cool book... full of compassion, humor, and spectacular run-on sentences.
260 pages
English language
Published 1982 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Mariner Books.
Calvino shows that the novel, far from being a dead form, is capable of endless mutations. If on a winter's night a traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author.
Gosh dangit, now here's a cool book... full of compassion, humor, and spectacular run-on sentences.