• Title: If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler
• Author: Italo Calvino
• Genre/Subject: Italian literature (Wop fiction)
• Publisher: Kindle/Harcourt
• Publication Date: 1981
• Start date: 5/10/2022
• Finish date: 5/16/2022

Review:

Without doubt one of the most peculiar and yet most enjoyable books I have ever encountered.

To describe it is difficult. A man starts to read a new novel and finds it cuts off after the first chapter. So he goes back to the shop to complain and meets a woman who had the same thing happen with a different book. And they hook up to discover what is going on, to solve the mystery. Only it just opens more blind alleys and misdirections.

This is a piece of literary brilliance that in lesser hands would not have worked well, or at all.

I award this little novel the coveted Neilosian 5 stars.