If On A Winters Night A Traveler — Italo Calvino

Calvinos dazzling post modernist masterpiece combines a love story a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading Based on a witty anaolgy between the readers desire to finish the story and the lovers desire to consummate his or her passion IF ON A WINTERS NIGHT is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of same book IF ON A WINTERS NIGHT by Italo Calvino are constantly and comically frustrated THE ARABIAN NIGHTS of our day