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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100156154552
ISBN-139780156154550
eBay Product ID (ePID)42564
Product Key Features
Book TitleCastle of Crossed Destinies
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFantasy / General, General, Literary, Fantasy / Urban
Publication Year1979
GenreFiction
AuthorItalo Calvino
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight6 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN78-023588
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsSemiotic fantasy novel by Italo Calvino, published in Italian in 1973 as Il castello dei destini incrociati. It consists of a series of short tales gathered into two sections, The Castle of Crossed Destinies and The Tavern of Crossed Destinies . The novel concerns two groups of travelers through a forest, both of which have lost the power to speak as the result of traumatic events. One group is spending the night in a tavern, the other in a castle. In each place, the travelers tell the stories of their lives, using tarot cards instead of words. A narrator at each place interprets the cards for the reader, but since the tarot cards are subject to multiple interpretations, the stories the narrators offer are not necessarily the stories intended by the mute storytellers.
Dewey Decimal853.9/14
Synopsis"A shamelessly original work of art." --New York Times A brilliant, deeply inventive story in which a group of travelers' powers of speech are magically taken from them and only have tarot cards with which to tell their stories A group of road-weary travelers convene first in a castle, then a tavern. After passing through a forest on their journey, their powers of speech are mysteriously taken from them. As each traveler attempts to tell the story of how they got here, they must relay on tarot cards instead of words. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal and chaotic history of all human consciousness. The Castle of Crossed Destinies is a bold and singular work, a stunning exploration of the visual and the verbal, from one of the most celebrated experimental authors of all time. Featuring reproductions of fifteenth-century tarot cards, "A shamelessly original work of art." -- New York Times A brilliant, deeply inventive story in which a group of travelers' powers of speech are magically taken from them and only have tarot cards with which to tell their stories A group of road-weary travelers convene first in a castle, then a tavern. After passing through a forest on their journey, their powers of speech are mysteriously taken from them. As each traveler attempts to tell the story of how they got here, they must relay on tarot cards instead of words. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal and chaotic history of all human consciousness. The Castle of Crossed Destinies is a bold and singular work, a stunning exploration of the visual and the verbal, from one of the most celebrated experimental authors of all time. Featuring reproductions of fifteenth-century tarot cards
LC Classification NumberPQ4809.A45
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