Influences
In a 1985 interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated If on a winter's night a traveller was "clearly" influenced by the writings of Vladimir Nabokov. The book was also influenced by the author's membership in the Oulipo; the structure of the text is said to be an adaptation of the structural semiology of A.J. Greimas.
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