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Title: Entertaining and engaging
Review: "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" is one of the most original and engaging books I have read. Like the title, the books is a group of unfinished stories bound together by one continuous story. The protgonist is desperate to finish the book he has, but finds that each successive copy he gets has a different story that ends abruptly as if there were pages missing. This resembles the magic realism of Marquez (except that Calvino's protagonist has a more plausible story) or the outlandish stories of Kafka, except that Calvino's outlook is romantic and positive. While the idea of a book with a bunch of unfinished stories seems to be torture to read, Calvino keeps it together (and the reader engrossed) with his delicate and readable style.When I read some of the simple and uninteresting fiction that I come across, lately, I think of Calvino's unusual little book and think there is still hope for creativity and imagination.
