If on a winter's night a traveler

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If on a winter's night a traveler

First edition (publ. Einaudi, Turin)
Author	Italo Calvino
Original title	Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
Translator	William Weaver
Cover artist	Dominique Appia[1]
Language	Italian
Genre	Postmodernist novel
Publisher	Einaudi
Publication date	1979
Publication place	Italy
Published in English	1981
ISBN	9788806491307
OCLC	777233785
Dewey Decimal	853.914
LC Class	PQ4809.A45 S3713
Preceded by	Invisible Cities
Followed by	Mr. Palomar

If on a winter's night a traveler (Italian: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. The postmodernist narrative, in the form of a frame story, is about the reader trying to read a book called If on a winter's night a traveler. Each chapter is divided into two sections. The first section of each chapter is in second person, and describes the process the reader goes through to attempt to read the next chapter of the book they are reading. The second half is the first part of a new book that the reader ("you") finds. The second half is always about something different from the previous ones. The book was published in an English translation by William Weaver in 1981.