u003cpu003eu003cbu003eItalo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers.u003c/bu003eu003c/pu003e u003cpu003e u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eu003ciu003eIf on au003c/iu003eu003ciu003eWinter's Night a Traveleru003c/iu003e turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.u003c/pu003e