Ask Calvino for The Castle of Crossed Destinies .

The Castle of Crossed Fates is a combination of pictures and words. Calvino chose tarot solitaire to construct the narrative structure of **. Tarot Solitaire is a type of solitaire that has been popular in Italy and Europe since the 15th century, and can be played by four people and can also be used for divination.

In an uncertain time in the Middle Ages, in a lonely castle in the forest, many passers-by came to stay. These travelers get together, they don't know each other, they all lose the ability to speak, and tarot cards become a means of communication between them. They follow the drawings on each card and tell their adventures.

Typing is not easy, such as satisfaction, hope.

Translator: Zhang Mi.

Douban score: Publisher: Yilin Publishing House.

Year of publication: 2012-4

Pages: 168

Brief introduction: In the mainland, Wang Xiaobo, Su Tong, Ah Cheng, and Zhi'an are his loyal fans.

In Taiwan, Zhu Tianwen, Don Nuo is Calvino's unsparing communicator.

In Hong Kong, Mr. Leung said he had been preparing to talk about Calvino, but had not been ready.

The authoritative edition comprehensively revises the 2006 single translation of the single edition, and adds important information such as the preface, afterword, and commentary of Calvino's works.

The well-known designer has a new binding, a hardcover double cover design, a spine bronzing, and an original line drawing on the cover, giving each work a literary personality.

Spreading out a set of seventy-eight tarot cards, Calvino takes us to the punished Negative Man, the Alchemist who sold his soul, the bride who was condemned to Hell, the Tomb Robber, Orlando who has gone mad with love, and Astolfo on the moon. In castles and restaurants where fates intersect, do we try to tell our own stories?

About the author: The most influential contemporary Italian writer in the world. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1985, but missed out on the prize due to his sudden death that year. However, his works have already had a great impact on the Italian literary world and even the world literary circles.

Calvino has been engaged in literary creation for 40 years, and has always tried to express the life and mind of contemporary people in various ways. His works are a combination of realism, surrealism and postmodernism, and he constructs stories beyond imagination and rich in fairy tale flavor with rich techniques and strange angles, which are deeply admired and deeply influenced by contemporary writers. The "Our Ancestors" trilogy, "The Castle of Crossed Destinies", "Palomar", etc., have reached astonishing artistic heights and depth of thought.

Italian Fairy Tales maintains the original appearance of Italian folk oral tales to the greatest extent, and has both artistic and academic value, and is a rare work that reproduces the profound accumulation of Italian "national memory". "American Lectures" is a systematic review and theoretical summary and elaboration of Calvino's rich experience in his creative practice in the past 40 years. His works reflect the times in a unique way, and even more transcend them.

This collection includes three works by Italo Calvino: "The Castle of Crossed Destinies", "Invisible Cities", and "Wonders of the Universe". The first two works are representative of the author's post-modernist creative style, which came out in the seventies.

The story of "The Castle of Crossed Fates" is set in an ancient castle in the forest, and some people who have never known their lives are gathered here by fate to have dinner at the dinner table, and the experience of escaping death through the woods makes everyone lose the ability to speak, so they use the tarot cards to tell the story of their abilities......

The author's works are diverse in style, and each one has reached an extremely high level, expressing the times and surpassing them. He died suddenly in 1985 and missed out on the Nobel Prize in Literature that year, but his influence on the international literary scene has grown day by day, and his work has attracted more and more attention. This collection includes nearly 20 of his representative works from various periods, and is the most comprehensive introduction to Calvino's works in China to date.

This volume includes The Castle of Intersecting Destinies, published in 1969, The Invisible City, published in 1972, and Cosmic Wonders, published in 1965.