This book, in the strict sense of the word, is not a novel at all, but an enchanting literary game, in which you inevitably find yourself involved from the very first page, because the author has assigned one of the main roles in the story to you: the role of the Reader. Vremya Novostei, No. 148 Cult Novel “If One Winter Night a Traveler” is rightfully considered the pinnacle of Italo Calvino’s late work. Ten plug-in novels that make up the original mosaic of classical hypertext are interconnected by the cross-cutting characters of the Reader and the Reader - the main characters of the entire book, the final conclusion from which is twofold: the continuity of life and the inevitability of death.