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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
Paperback | Pages: 143 pages Rating: 3.86 | 13207 Users | 602 Reviews
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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.
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| 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 ReviewsWrite-Up Out Of Books Il visconte dimezzato (I nostri antenati #1)
A short fairy-tale-like story about a nobleman who comes back from the war with the Turks horribly disfigured; his entire left-hand side has been shot to pieces (or has it?) and the one-eyed, one-legged, one-armed, half-gutted, half-brained (but not half-witted) nobleman seems to have gone through a personality change; it soon turns out that he's, well, evil. He treats his subjects horribly, and he's also become obsessed with cutting things in half.Of course, after a while it turns out his55th book of 2020.A very bizarre, short novel from Calvino, published some five years after his debut, Path to the Spider's Nest. The latter being a realist novel about the War, this is more reminiscent of Calvino's later postmodern work. The best way to explain this is by calling it a fairy tale, or a myth; it is told in that way, quite simply. It is about a Viscount who is blown perfectly in half by a cannonball, but lives. Without any spoilers, the surviving half returns from the War against
When I saw the book in the store I was surprised by how tiny it is. It was cheap and I wanted to dig into Italo Calvino's work for some time so... I got it. The story is pretty simple. We have a man who comes back from the war. But he's not whole anymore. He's just a half of himself. Literally. He lost half of his body on the battlefield. And with it half of his soul.I guess I'm just really used to long stories that give me time to explore the plot and the characters alike. Here we don't get
I read an Arabic translation of this(I can't find it on goodreads,unfortunately) and I loved it.
Marvellous.
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
"My uncle was then in his first youth, the age in which confused feelings, not yet sifted, all rush into good and bad, the age in which every new experience, even macabre and inhuman, is palpitating and warm with love of life." Vittore Carpaccio's 1510 painting, Young Knight in a Landscape, could have been an illustration for this Italo Calvino quote taken from the first pages of The Cloven Viscount, at a time in the story prior to a Turkish cannon firing a cannonball that split the poor
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