description: 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.
language: German
title: Das Schloss Darin Sich
titlecomplete: Das Schloss Darin Sich
genres: Short Stories, Novels, Literature, Italian Literature, Tarot, Fantasy, Classics, Italy, Fiction, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 8929
publisher: Carl Hanser Verlag Munchen