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The cloven viscount / Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhon.
Van Pelt Library PQ4809.A45 V513 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calvino, Italo, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Viconte dimezzato. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Good and evil--Fiction.
- Good and evil.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 115 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017?]
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780544960060
- 0544960068
- OCLC:
- 953710110
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