The Castle of Crossed Destinies
by:
Italo Calvino (author)
A series of short, fantastic narratives inspired by fifteenth-century tarot cards and their archetypical images. Full-color and black-and-white reproductions of tarot cards. Translated by William Weaver.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
A series of short, fantastic narratives inspired by fifteenth-century tarot cards and their archetypical images. Full-color and black-and-white reproductions of tarot cards. Translated by William Weaver.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156154550 (0156154552)
ASIN: 156154552
Publish date: April 16th 1979
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Short Stories,
Italian Literature,
Fiction
I bumped into this book via wikipedia. I was (actually still am, as I write this) reading Orlando Furioso, and on the wikipedia page under Later Literature, read this:The Italian novelist Italo Calvino drew on Ariosto for several of his works of fiction including Il cavaliere inesistente ("The None...
1,5review later...
Interessante l'idea dei tarocchi e la tecnica narrativa, ma non sono riuscita ad appassionarmi a questo libro come già per altre opere dell'autore. Mi ha lasciata piuttosto indifferente.
I loved the concept of the book and probably would have liked it better if I had read the classics it references more recently, but I found after reading the first half, I wasn't that eager to read the rest. Sad, but there you have it.
I think that The Castle of Crossed Destinies is probably one of the most cleverly written books I've come across in a good while. Unfortunately, I also found it rather dull in many places as well. For me the book didn't really pick up until the second of the story, which was a pity as the novel is...
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