The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Harvest/HBJ Book) - Softcover

Calvino, Italo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156154552 ISBN 13: 9780156154550

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1981

Synopsis

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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Review:

"A work that celebrates storytelling... Magical." (Fiona Wilson The Times)

"The interlinking of tales is incredibly complex and subtle: a history of all human consciousness through the myths of Oedipus, Parsifal, Faust, Hamlet and so on. The Castle of Crossed destinies is a shamelessly original work of art-beautiful in the sense that it is the careful statement of an artist we have learned to trust" (New Yorker)

"Italo Calvino has advanced far beyond his American and English contemporaries. As they continue to look for the place where the spiders make their nests, Calvino has not only found this special place but learned how himself to make fantastic webs of prose to which all things adhere" (Gore Vidal)

"The marriage of the verbal and the visual in The Castle of Crossed Destinies seems almost prodigious. It is as if sulpher and mercury had at last fused into gold" (Times Literary Supplement)

"A work that celebrates storytelling... Magical."

Book Description:

'A shamelessly original work of art' New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0156154552
• ISBN 13: 9780156154550
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144