Volume 24, Number 8 · May 12, 1977
Fortune Hunting
By Michael Wood
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 129 pp., $10.00
Mortal Engines
by Stanislaw Lem, translated by Michael Kandel
Seabury Press, 239 pp., $9.95
The Sunday of Life
by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright
New Directions, 180 pp., $3.95 (paper)
In Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Marco Polo and Kublai Khan converse among the fountains and magnolias of the Khan's hanging garden. At first, the Venetian is unable to speak the Khan's language, and can recount his travels in the Empire only with gestures, leaps, and cries, and by exhibiting various objects he has brought back with him. He also resorts to pantomime:
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