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The Cloven Viscount

Translated by Archibald Colquhoun

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The Cloven Viscount

By: Italo Calvino
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
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In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures.

In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bissected lengthwise 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. The two halves become rivals for the love of the same woman, fight a bloody duel, and achieve a miraculous resolution.

Now available in an independent volume for the first time, this deliciously bizarre novella is Calvino at his most devious and winning.

©1951 Giulio Einaudi Editiore, S.p.A.; Translation: 1962 William Collns Sons & Company Limited and Random House Inc. (P)2017 Recorded Books Absurdist Classics Fantasy Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Magical Realism
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