If a traveler in a winter night

Author's name: Italo Calvino Publisher: Dar Al-Mada for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2020 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: An unparalleled masterpiece by Italo Calvino in the history of world novels, and it is the novel of novels, its hero being the reader of the novel, searching for the completeness of the event that never completes, and the always incomplete novels, and the ambiguous and confusing narrations of the authors... As if deficiency is the essence of the world, or the novel: as if "completeness" is an illusion and a false idea. A novel unlike any of the world's previous creations and not similar — in any way — to Calvino's previous works, or even touching on them, as if it is the pinnacle of creative, narrative, and cultural awareness.