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''The Castle of Crossed Destinies'' is a 1969 Novel by Italo Calvino that details a meeting among travelers (with '' Homage '' to Geoffrey Chaucer ) who are inexplicably unable to speak after traveling through a Forest . The characters in the novel recount their tales via Tarot Cards , which are reconstructed by the Narrator . The novel is an exploration of how meaning is created, whether that be written via words (by the author, via the book, since the characters in the book cannot speak to each other) or by images (the tarot cards -- considered prophetic to some and are themselves open to many symbolic interpretations). It is, as often in Calvino's works, multi-layered, and several levels of interpretations and readings are possible, based on the relationships between Author -narrator- Characters - Reader . |
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