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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino (1981)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG
Pages (Standard (250-400))
Setting
CSM age16
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Content levels

ViolenceNone
Sexual contentMild
LanguageNone

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MysterySelf-DiscoveryAdventure

Protagonist archetypes

Metafictional Reader

Tropes

Unreliable NarratorFish out of Water

Themes

MetafictionThe Nature of ReadingNarrative StructureAuthor and Reader RelationshipReality vs FictionPostmodernismThe Act of Storytelling

Synopsis

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.

Tags

Literary FictionPostmodern FictionExperimental Fiction