新書上市│全新譯本《命運交織的城堡》
首度義大利文直譯版。
卡爾維諾舉世聞名用「塔羅牌」寫的小說。
一場說故事遊戲。說出命運與自我創造間交織的脆弱與活力。
一群穿越茂密奇幻森林的旅人，先後聚集在城堡和酒館。旅人因穿越森林失去說話的能力，於是他們透過塔羅牌講述發生在自己身上的故事。塔羅牌從牌面圖案到牌陣，可以無限解讀，不同的排列組合，隨機變化的故事，形成命運交織的網。
本書為卡爾維諾的一種奇幻圖像學實驗，用紙牌建構出篇篇結構精密的故事，從城堡主人到鍊金術士，這批森林旅人當中竟還包括浮士德、馬克白夫人、伊底帕斯，還有卡爾維諾自己，執起戀人、錢幣皇后、權杖騎士的牌面，宛如降靈會，滿桌捕捉想像馳騁瞬間的紙牌充滿閱讀樂趣。全書以圖像與語言的交織，證實了卡爾維諾對後世影像敍事、電腦遊戲及至人工智慧等後現代轉向的預見。
「世界必須倒過來看，一切便清楚了。」
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《命運交織的城堡》
Il castello dei destini incrociati
by Italo Calvino
伊塔羅．卡爾維諾／著 倪安宇／譯
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Pedro Páramo / Juan Rulfo ; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden ; with a foreword by Susan Sontag.
Rulfo, Juan.
c1994.
ROVING EYE
A Masterpiece That Inspired Gabriel García Márquez to Write His Own
For decades, Juan Rulfo’s novel, “Pedro Páramo,” has cast an uncanny spell on writers. A new translation may bring it broader appeal.
The Mexican writer Juan Rulfo (1917-86) with an Aztec skull. Rulfo’s work influenced generations of Latin American writers.Credit...Archivo Manuel Álvarez Bravo
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What I like about the story, which García Márquez recounts in a 1980 foreword that appears in a new translation of PEDRO PÁRAMO (Grove, 129 pp., paperback, $17), is not what it says about García Márquez the writer: his photographic and phonographic memory, his baroque literary fervor and his almost humble confession that it was this compact novel that showed him a way back into writing and ultimately made possible his masterpiece. What I like about it is what it says about García Márquez the reader, and more widely, what it says about the spell Rulfo’s book casts on so many of its admirers.
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