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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 |
Italo Calvino
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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.
Mention Books As Il visconte dimezzato (I nostri antenati #1)
| Original Title: | Il visconte dimezzato |
| ISBN: | 8804370874 (ISBN13: 9788804370871) |
| Edition Language: | Italian |
| Series: | I nostri antenati #1 |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 13207 Users | 602 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books Il visconte dimezzato (I nostri antenati #1)
Italo Calvino's Jekyll and Hyde. The more I think about this one, the deeper and more provoking it becomes. I can't say I enjoyed it as much as Calvino's other works but there's so much going on beneath the surface that it's really challenged me.So after a bit of research I gathered that some people take this as a World War II/Cold War allegory and others take it to be a parable about human nature and morality. Those can be the same thing, in my opinion.It starts in the 17th century when theA good story to read and an interesting take on the duality of man without going into all that clinical jibber-jabber. Although a good question is whether Calvino dumbing it down intentionally or just telling a simple story, or maybe I'm just dumb and didn't get all that I could from the book. Damn postmodernism.
156 pages :) To read before 2019
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 a rivals for the love of the same woman, theres no telling the lengths each will go to win. As the blurb suggests, The Cloven Viscount is a fantastic tale. Though it might be quite gruesome for some, its fun and really light compared other Calvinos I
Is this the strangest story I have ever read? Truly I think it is. Here's a plot summary from Wikipedia. Decide for yourself."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 fighting, a Turkish swordsman unhorses the inexperienced Viscount. Fearless, he scrambles over the battlefield with sword bared, and is split in two by a cannonball
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.
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