The Wheel of Fortune

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Part story, part game, The Wheel of Fortune, written and illustrated with drawings by Spanish visual artist David Maroto, is a book with a differenceone in which the reader becomes the protagonist. Inspired by Prousts In Search of Lost Time, Dostoyevskys The Gambler and the gamebook Choose Your Own Adventure popular in the early 1990s, this gamebook is the basis for Decide Your Destiny, a collective event for 52 players. Set in a hotel casino on the coast of Normandy, the narrative changes according to the readers decisions and interactions with characters in the book. Different games are played in the story like French rouletteand Russian roulette. Death, chance, desire and arcane knowledge unfold as the reader/performer explores multiple narrative paths. Maroto, who also created The Book Lovers, a project on artist novels, creates art in the form of games and novels and is currently working in Scotland.