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You are about to begin reading the [[TV Tropes]] entry on Italo Calvino's classic 1979 novel ''If on a winter's night a traveler''. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Close all other browser windows. Find a comfortable position to read -- don't lean in too close, you'll strain your eyes, but don't lean too far back, or you might miss vital words on the screen. Adjust the light. Stretch your legs. Do you have any drinks or snacks nearby in case you get hungry? Anything else? Do you have to go to the bathroom?▼
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Italo Calvino's novel ''If on a winter's night a traveler'' is about you. You are trying to read Italo Calvino's book ''If on a winter's night a traveler'' when something quite annoying happens: there was an error and only the first exciting chapter is there. So you go back to the bookstore and try to exchange your copy of ''If on a winter's night a traveler'' for another one, but the person at the bookstore tells you that the chapter you just read
And so you go off in search of that book and, naturally, you find [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity]], an international book-fraud conspiracy, and [[Love Tropes|true love]].
▲=== These are the tropes you find in Italo Calvino's ''If on a winter's night a traveler'': ===
* [[Arc Words]]: An interesting example, where each of the titles of the books you read add up to an entirely new first sentence of a book. It goes {{spoiler|''If, on a winter's night, a traveler, outside the town of Malbork, leaning from the steep slope, without fear of wind or vertigo, looks down in the gathering shadow (in a network of lines that interlace/in a network of lines that intersect) on the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon around an empty grave, what story down there awaits its end? (he asks, anxious to hear the story)''}}
* [[Audience Surrogate]]: The Reader for male readers, Ludmilla/the Other Reader for female readers.
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=== These are the tropes you find within the books within ''If on a winter's night a traveler'' ===▼
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* [[Always Female]]: the [[Love Interests]].
* [[Always Male]]: the narrators.
* [[Asian and Nerdy]]: Narrator of "On a Carpet of Leaves Illuminated By The Moon."
* [[Cherry Blossoms]]: Replaced by gingko leaves in "On a Carpet of Leaves," but a similar aesthetic and philosophical association remains.
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: Ubiquitous.
* [[Far East]]: Japan, in "On a Carpet of Leaves." Our narrator and his stern mentor spend much time contemplating the [[Cherry Blossoms|falling gingko leaves]], and the narrator appears to be learning a Zen-like mode of consciousness, isolating particular sensations to understand them completely.
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Irina in "Without Fear of Wind or Vertigo."
* [[The Fool]]: The narrator of "Leaning From the Steep Slope."
* [[Gene Hunting]]: After his father's death, Nacho from "Around an Empty Grave" goes looking for his mother. He has a very hard time getting a straight answer.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: The narrator of "Around an Empty Grave." See below.
* [[His Name Is--|Her Name Is]]: The protagonist of "Around an Empty Grave" [[Genre Savvy|sees this coming]] with his father's death, but is unable to keep the trope from being played absolutely straight.
* [[Iconic Item]]: Irina's hat with the rose on it.
* [[Love Interests]]: [[Always Female]], and run the gamut from sweet and naive, to sadistic and controlling, and everything in between.
* [[The Mole]]: in "Without Fear of Wind or Vertigo."
* [[Multiple Choice Past]]: the narrator of "Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow." He's constantly trying to escape one life after another.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: in "What Story Down There Awaits Its End?"
* [[No Name Given]]: For almost all of them.
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: The professor who narrates "In a Network of Lines that Enlace." Notably, even ''he'' thinks he's being way too paranoid, until the very end. And this same trait absolutely backfires on the narrator of "In a Network of Lines that Intersect."
* [[Superpower Meltdown]]: In "What Story Down There Awaits Its End?" the main character doesn't even realize he's having a meltdown. He erases almost the whole world from existence before he realizes he can't bring it back.
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: It's entirely possible that the narrator of "Leaning From the Steep Slope" is not mentally stable.
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