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Quotation from If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.”
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Chapter 1, opening sentence, trans. William Weaver (1981)
The opening, in which the narrator addresses the reader directly as the novel's protagonist.
Citation: "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler." — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Chapter 1, opening sentence, trans. William Weaver (1981). (id if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler-q1)
