Super Short Summary

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino is a postmodern novel featuring a dual narrative: the Reader's journey through a series of fragmented, unfinished books and the narrator's direct address to the Reader. The novel starts when the Reader discovers a printing error and becomes entangled in a quest to find the book's conclusion, meeting various characters and encountering different incomplete stories along the way. The novel contains references to death by suicide and explicit sexual situations.