Stories not written : Italo Calvino’s the castle of crossed destinies.

• Main Author: Cheong, Sylvia Chia Hwee.
• Other Authors: Terence Richard Dawson
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44056
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Castle of Crossed Destinies has received scant attention as compared to Calvino’s other novels, and many critics have seen Calvino’s game of storytelling with tarot cards negatively. The author’s apparent abandonment of the combinatory game is often interpreted by critics as revealing through pa...