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| Original Title: | Il visconte dimezzato |
| ISBN: | 8804370874 (ISBN13: 9788804370871) |
| Edition Language: | Italian |
| Series: | I nostri antenati #1 |
Italo Calvino
Paperback | Pages: 143 pages Rating: 3.86 | 13207 Users | 602 Reviews
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[Trovi un'edizione con copertina alternativa per questo ISBN qui]Il narratore rievoca la storia dello zio, Medardo di Torralba, che, combattendo in Boemia contro i Turchi, è tagliato a metà da un colpo di cannone. Le due parti del corpo, perfettamente conservate, mostrano diversi caratteri: la prima metà mostra un'indole crudele, infierisce sui sudditi e insidia la bella Pamela, mentre l'altra metà, quella buona, si prodiga per riparare ai misfatti dell'altra e chiede in sposa Pamela. I due viscconti dimezzati si sfidano a duello e nello scontro cominciano a sanguinare nelle rispettive parti monche. Un medico ne approfitta per riunire le due metà del corpo e restituire alla vita un visconte intero, in cui si mescolano male e bene.
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| Title | : | Il visconte dimezzato (I nostri antenati #1) |
| Author | : | Italo Calvino |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Oscar opere di Italo Calvino |
| Pages | : | Pages: 143 pages |
| Published | : | January 31st 1993 by Mondadori (first published February 1952) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. European Literature. Italian Literature. Fantasy |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 13207 Users | 602 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books Il visconte dimezzato (I nostri antenati #1)
filled with a magical joy de vivre that is at once quaintly beautiful and happily blood-stained gothic. a fable of every souls dangerously divided natures.Il visconte dimezzato = The Cloven Viscount, Italo CalvinoThe Cloven Viscount (Italian: Il visconte dimezzato) is a fantasy novel written by Italo Calvino. It was first published by Einaudi (Turin) in 1952 and in English in 1962 by William Collins, with a translation by Archibald Colquhoun. The Viscount Medardo of Terralba and his squire Kurt ride across the plague-ravaged plain of Bohemia en route to join the Christian army in the Turkish wars of the seventeenth century. On the first day of
I read an Arabic translation of this(I can't find it on goodreads,unfortunately) and I loved it.
I was surprised by how dark this novella is, especially compared to the rest of Calvino's works. The very first thing the reader is shown is a corpse riddled battlefield, so pervaded with death that even the carrion birds have all died. With this book, Calvino seemed to be going in a much different, grimmer direction, away from all of the rest of his works, and when Calvino goes in one direction, he dives headlong at a breakneck speed. And yet, though all throughout this book people are cut
I read this book in Italian, so I'm certain that a good chunk of this book didn't land, but the book is interesting in its own way. The book has a few really interesting things going for it. The first is a fun sense of playing fables and contemporary psychology without ever doing backflips to point out to itself how clever it is. Calvino is very inventive, but rarely congratulates himself in his texts. So many modernized fables are interested in two things: the contemporary, and the reversal.
Il visconte dimezzato = The Cloven Viscount, Italo CalvinoThe Cloven Viscount (Italian: Il visconte dimezzato) is a fantasy novel written by Italo Calvino. It was first published by Einaudi (Turin) in 1952 and in English in 1962 by William Collins, with a translation by Archibald Colquhoun. The Viscount Medardo of Terralba and his squire Kurt ride across the plague-ravaged plain of Bohemia en route to join the Christian army in the Turkish wars of the seventeenth century. On the first day of
Now this is how you do a fable. What a joy the language is, even in translation. Not to mention each character, good and bad alike, equal parts lovable and bizarre. Once again, the only reason Id want to have kids is to read them Calvino.
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