If on a Winter's Night a Traveler: Introduction by Peter Washington

Description: Translation of: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore.

Review Quotes: "[Italo Calvino is] one of the world's best fabulists."
--John Gardner, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"Calvino is a wizard."
--Mary McCarthy, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

"[Calvino] manages to charm and entertain the reader in the teeth of a scheme designed to frustrate all reasonable readerly expectations."
--John Updike, THE NEW YORKER

"Calvino is that very rare phenomenon, a true original . . . If on a winter's night a traveler is breathtakingly complex and self-conscious (there are moments when it quite literally makes one gasp with astonishment) . . . [yet it] is one of the most accessible and enchanting novels written in the last fifty years."
--from the Introduction by Peter Washington