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If on a winter's night a traveler () is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino.

The narrative is about a reader trying to read a book called If on a winter's night a traveller.

Every odd-numbered chapter is in the second person, and tells the reader what he is doing in preparation for reading the next chapter.

The even-numbered chapters are all single chapters from whichever book the reader is trying to read.

The book was published in an English translation by William Weaver in 1981.