If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: a book to experience

By: Maxwell Gawlick You pick up a new novel, but the pages are out of order. You pick up a new copy, containing only the first chapter, but that chapter makes you desperate for the next. You search for the next chapter and wind up on an adventure to uncover the scattered tale. This is the idea behind Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.      Set in the fictional country of Cimmeria between World War I and II, Calvino’s novel is a surreal adventure with a frame-story style that always keeps the story fresh. It’s split…

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