"If on a winter's night" ... an author and a reader...

Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler ('Se una note d'inverno un viaggiatore') is a brilliant postmodern novel dealing with the implications of our age-long narrative watertight compartments of author, narrator, character, narrative, stability, identity, persistence, etc - and playing with the fire of their inversion and dissolution. It is a…