Chapter 7 Experimental Signs: Invisible Cities and The Castle of Crossed Destinies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. Introduction ix
6. Chapter The Apprentice Artisan: The Early Short Stories 1
7. Chapter 2 A Small-scale Epic: The Path to the Spiders' Nests 19
8. Chapter 3 From Neorealism to Fantasy: Our Ancestors 35
9. Chapter 4 (Re)Writing Realism: A Plunge into Real Estate 48
10. Chapter 5 Calvina's Thematics: Sex, Texts and the Secret Watermark of the Universe 63
11. Chapter 6 Experimental Space: The Cosmicomic Stories 80
12. Chapter 7 Experimental Signs: Invisible Cities and The Castle of Crossed Destinies 100
13. Chapter 8 A Borgesian Summa: lf on a Winter's Night a Traveller 116
14. Chapter 9 Words and Silence: The Strange Genesis of Mr Palomar 129
15. Chapter 10 Calvina's Style: Abstract Aspirations for the Next Millennium 145
16. Conclusion 161
17. Appendix Chronology of Calvina's Fictions 166
18. Bibliography 174
19. Index 185