The Cloven Viscount

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary, Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino, HMH Books
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Author: Italo Calvino ISBN: 9780544130098
Publisher: HMH Books Publication: October 26, 2012
Imprint: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Language: English
Author: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 9780544130098
Publisher: HMH Books
Publication: October 26, 2012
Imprint: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language: English

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.

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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 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.

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