I read this book "difficult" after a few years.
I also ranked among the essays because it is not only a work of fiction, but also a method for making up stories, to show the genesis of the stories as a result of creativity, because creativity does not respond to chance and intuition, but precise rules and fantastic locations.
Calvino uses the tarot as a carpenter gouges: every work of his craft is different because it marks the sensitivity of his hand, but without his tools, it would not create anything. Here, Calvin shows that the craftsman of stories creates original works, but he also needs its own tools, which here are represented by the tarot.
The book is divided into two parts (the castle and the basement ... of Crossed Destinies). The first part is probably better managed, more fun and smooth, while the latter is more cryptic and "complicated".
certainly is not the de Calvino The Baron in the Trees , de Invisible Cities or de If a winter's night a traveler , but it is Calvin, experiment and play as only he can do.
be read before or after ... playing cards.
Synopsis In 1969 the publisher Franco Maria Ricci asked Calvin a text outlining the Tarot deck Visconti, stored at Bergamo and the United States, the oldest known. Calvin applied the combinatorial method, also experienced by Propp and Queneau. In Boccaccio
a frame, a group of travelers who, for a different set of circumstances, have lost the word find themselves in a castle and the only way to communicate is that they represented from a deck of tarot cards. The stories are told by the mute diners on the table by placing the figures of the Tarot, each using those of others, or taking a turn from the deck cards not yet used. The book, which of course is illustrated, was published in 1973ed is divided into two parts: simplifying we can say that the first, The Castle, is a tribute Ariosto, the second part is a tribute to Shakespeare, and uses of the Tarot 700, Marseille.
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