The Castle of Crossed Destinies

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The Castle of Crossed Destinies

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The Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature
Semiotic 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.

The Castle of Crossed Destinies,Italo Calvino,Harcourt,0156154552,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Italy,Literature: Classics,Modern fiction

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