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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
by Italo Calvino
I like books. And I like books on books. Italo Calvino creates an air of suspended fictional narratives, with 78 tarot cards, weaving in, amongst others, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Oedipus and Sigismund of Vindabola and his interpretation of dreams.
Travellers meet in a tavern, wish to share their stories, but find themselves rendered mute. With just tarot cards at their disposal, though the the tales they create look clichéd, their telling is very much not. Interpretations are questioned, and Calvino makes a wonderful statement, Showing every man in a perpetual pursuit of permutations of words (or tarot cards). Worth the read.
Travellers meet in a tavern, wish to share their stories, but find themselves rendered mute. With just tarot cards at their disposal, though the the tales they create look clichéd, their telling is very much not. Interpretations are questioned, and Calvino makes a wonderful statement, Showing every man in a perpetual pursuit of permutations of words (or tarot cards). Worth the read.