false 59779 17 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. 58173 book 1973 Il castello dei destini incrociati total:596|5:128|4:216|3:180|2:62|1:10| 596 2178 915 42 0 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 01 19:46:30 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 19:46:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 9 false false Fri Jul 24 05:34:03 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 05:35:34 -0700 2009 ‘I always feel the need to alternate one type of writing with another, completely different, to begin writing again as if I had never written anything before.’

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