Caminhos intertextuais: narrativa verbal e tarot em O castelo dos destinos cruzados, de Italo Calvino

Abstract

This dissertation presents an analysis of the intertextuality, one of the transtextual relations presented by Gerard Genette and discussed by Linda Hutcheon, and the multimodality present in The castle of crossed destinies written by Italo Calvino. The aim of this analysis is to identify intertexts present in four chapters of the book: “The Castle”, “The Tavern”, “The Tale of Alchemist Who Sold His Soul” and “I Also Try to Tell My Tale”. In addition to the intertexts identification, the objective of this study is to understand how each language contribute for the unfolding of the narrative, nominally, verbal language and tarot language, which is considered from the visual-cultural perspective. Using intertext and multimodality as theoreticalmethodological references, each chapter was analyzed verifying citations, allusions, plagiarism, as well as archtexts, peritexts, metatexts and hypotexts to elaborate this examination. As characteristics of The castle of crossed destinies, it is noted that the Tarot is used as a substitute for oral communication for the narrator and his companions, and as an object that allows expansion or convergence for Calvino’s reader. Moreover, the way narratives intersect each other has, based on Tzvetan Todorov, a formula, because they move forward in a chronological order with one action following after another. Besides that, intertexts allow us to understand Calvino’s work as a literary encyclopedia.