Tag: calvino
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Fortunetelling & Fiction: Italo Calvino’s The Castle of Crossed Destinies & Tarot as Radical Language

This post explores tarot and fortunetelling as literary devices, focusing on Italo Calvino’s “The Castle of Crossed Destinies.” The novel employs tarot as its primary narrative structure, allowing characters to communicate through visuals. This innovative approach challenges traditional storytelling, emphasizing narrative interpretation and the symbolic nature of tarot across different contexts.
