The Castle of Crossed Destinies
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
paperback | English
Published:
2 October, 1997
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099268055 |
| ISBN10 | 0099268051 |
| Number Of Pages | 144 |
| Item Weight | 120 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 198 x 10 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A work that celebrates storytelling… Magical. * 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 *
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Author's Bio
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.