THE CASTLE OF CROSSED DESTINIES by ITALO CALVINO Translated by WILLIAM WEAVER 129 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $10.
Idea: a novel in which all of the characters have been struck mute. The only way they can communicate is through the pictures and symbols on a pack of tarot cards. That seems the borrowed inspiration of a green writer who has been rifling Borges or Nabokov—a novelist who depends on conjury, not creativity. Yet the tarot notion comes from Italian Fabulist Italo Calvino, 53, who has been producing such chimerical conceptions in his...
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