The Cloven Viscount

The Cloven Viscount

by Italo Calvino
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Publisher:
Mariner Books
Genre:FICTION
Language: en
Published:2017
ISBN13:9780544960060
ISBN10:0544960068

About the Book

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 bisected 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. When the two halves become rivals for the love of the same woman, there's no telling the lengths each will go to win.Now available in an independent volume for the first time, this deliciously bizarre novella is Calvino at his most devious and winning.