4.0
The Cloven Viscount
Calvino's delightfully absurd and macabre novella about the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball and the separate paths they forge, exploring the duality of good and evil.
What is the relationship between good and evil? Can both exist at once, or is one the absence of the other? In a battle against the Turks, the Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bisected vertically by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate and takes up a lavishly evil life. Soon the other, virtuous half appears, determined to love an impossibly good existence. Both set out on their own independent adventures, but when the two halves become rivals for the love of the same woman, there's no telling the lengths each will go to win. From a master of magical realism, his bizarre story is Calvino at his most devious and insightful, spinning a powerful parable about the complexities of human morality.
"The reason Calvino is such an indispensable writer is precisely that he tells us, joyfully, wickedly, that there are things in the world worth loving as well as hating; and that such things exist in people, too. I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while the world ends." --Salman Rushdie
FictionFantasyHistoricalUrbanLiteraryRomance
RELEASED2017
PUBLISHERMariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH115
LANGUAGEEN
Italo Calvino (Santiago de Las Vegas de La Habana, 15 ottobre 1923 – Siena, 19 settembre 1985) è stato uno scrittore e paroliere italiano. Intellettuale di grande impegno politico, civile e culturale, è stato uno dei narratori italiani più importanti del secondo Novecento. I numerosi campi d'interesse toccati dal suo percorso letterario sono meditati e raccontati attraverso capolavori quali la trilogia de *I nostri antenati, Marcovaldo, Le cosmicomiche, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore,* uniti dal filo conduttore della riflessione sulla storia e la società contemporanea. ---------- Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the *Our Ancestors* trilogy (1952–1959), the *Cosmicomics* collection of short stories (1965), and the novels *Invisible Cities* (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
4.0
The Cloven Viscount
Calvino's delightfully absurd and macabre novella about the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball and the separate paths they forge, exploring the duality of good and evil.
What is the relationship between good and evil? Can both exist at once, or is one the absence of the other? In a battle against the Turks, the Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bisected vertically by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate and takes up a lavishly evil life. Soon the other, virtuous half appears, determined to love an impossibly good existence. Both set out on their own independent adventures, but when the two halves become rivals for the love of the same woman, there's no telling the lengths each will go to win. From a master of magical realism, his bizarre story is Calvino at his most devious and insightful, spinning a powerful parable about the complexities of human morality.
"The reason Calvino is such an indispensable writer is precisely that he tells us, joyfully, wickedly, that there are things in the world worth loving as well as hating; and that such things exist in people, too. I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while the world ends." --Salman Rushdie
FictionFantasyHistoricalUrbanLiteraryRomanceAmericanScience Fiction
RELEASED2017
PUBLISHERMariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH115
LANGUAGEEN
Italo Calvino (Santiago de Las Vegas de La Habana, 15 ottobre 1923 – Siena, 19 settembre 1985) è stato uno scrittore e paroliere italiano. Intellettuale di grande impegno politico, civile e culturale, è stato uno dei narratori italiani più importanti del secondo Novecento. I numerosi campi d'interesse toccati dal suo percorso letterario sono meditati e raccontati attraverso capolavori quali la trilogia de *I nostri antenati, Marcovaldo, Le cosmicomiche, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore,* uniti dal filo conduttore della riflessione sulla storia e la società contemporanea. ---------- Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the *Our Ancestors* trilogy (1952–1959), the *Cosmicomics* collection of short stories (1965), and the novels *Invisible Cities* (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
