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Italo Calvino: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (1992, Vintage) 4 stars

Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory …

A riotous meta-fictional journey, alternating between The Reader's quest to complete reading fragments of novels and the unfinished stories he finds on the way. Knowingly pretentious and ridiculous, the author muses on the intertwined processes of writing and reading.