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Title: The Cloven Viscount
Subtitle: Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
Author: Italo Calvino
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-05-17
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
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.
Members Reviews:
A Tale Of Two Heads
Ok, this is an early work of Calvino's and as such it lacks the polish of his latter works. It does show the influence of some of the lesser known Italian masters of magical realism such as Aldo Palazzeschi. Yet this apparently whimsical fairy tale of a knight cleaved into two separate but incomplete personae is as relevant today as it was in the early fifties. It operates on many levels, an allegory of Italian politiccs, the cold war struggle between east and west etc.
Of course we can see the beginnings of Calvino's interest in the role of myth to the writer, the philosophical questions of good versus evil, the existence of evil and the struggle between controlling both of these these impulses, think of a modern day Plato and his tale of the charioteer. It is difficult to form an attachment to the story until midway through book when the "good knight" makes an arrival. It is my personal interest in certain writers that the weight of their greatest works makes reading their lesser ones deserving of that effort, but then again I would be happy to read a laundry list if Hemingway wrote it.
Distracted by typographical errors
This was not as entertaining or thought-provoking as, for example, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, and the Kindle version contained a sufficient number of typos to be distracting.
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Title: The Cloven Viscount
Subtitle: Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
Author: Italo Calvino
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-05-17
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
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.
Members Reviews:
A Tale Of Two Heads
Ok, this is an early work of Calvino's and as such it lacks the polish of his latter works. It does show the influence of some of the lesser known Italian masters of magical realism such as Aldo Palazzeschi. Yet this apparently whimsical fairy tale of a knight cleaved into two separate but incomplete personae is as relevant today as it was in the early fifties. It operates on many levels, an allegory of Italian politiccs, the cold war struggle between east and west etc.
Of course we can see the beginnings of Calvino's interest in the role of myth to the writer, the philosophical questions of good versus evil, the existence of evil and the struggle between controlling both of these these impulses, think of a modern day Plato and his tale of the charioteer. It is difficult to form an attachment to the story until midway through book when the "good knight" makes an arrival. It is my personal interest in certain writers that the weight of their greatest works makes reading their lesser ones deserving of that effort, but then again I would be happy to read a laundry list if Hemingway wrote it.
Distracted by typographical errors
This was not as entertaining or thought-provoking as, for example, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, and the Kindle version contained a sufficient number of typos to be distracting.