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"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."
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"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."
'A shamelessly original work of art' New York Times
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- PublisherMartin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0436082217
- ISBN 13 9780436082214
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages129
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
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Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
(1977)
ISBN 10: 0436082217
ISBN 13: 9780436082214
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