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| Original Title: | Il visconte dimezzato |
| ISBN: | 8804370874 (ISBN13: 9788804370871) |
| Edition Language: | Italian |
| Series: | I nostri antenati #1 |
Italo Calvino
Paperback | Pages: 143 pages Rating: 3.86 | 13207 Users | 602 Reviews
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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 |
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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.Rating About Books Il visconte dimezzato (I nostri antenati #1)
Ratings: 3.86 From 13207 Users | 602 ReviewsEvaluation About Books Il visconte dimezzato (I nostri antenati #1)
Featured in my Top 5 Italo Calvino Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHHJq...As hilarious as it is thought-provoking, poised perfectly halfway between Calvino's 'straight' and 'quirky' novels. A great starting point for newbies and an immortal classic for everyone else."The Cloven Viscount" is an enjoyable if rather silly fable. The title character goes off to fight the Turks in Hungary (the battle scenes, though brief, are impressively hellish) and is improbably cut exactly in half (even more improbably, by a cannonball rather than a sword), with both halves, somehow, surviving. One half is put back together by army doctors and is purely evil: the other, rescued by hermits providing aid to survivors on the battlefield, is purely good. As you might expect,
filled with a magical joy de vivre that is at once quaintly beautiful and happily blood-stained gothic. a fable of every souls dangerously divided natures.
My first Calvino, and I have mixed feelings about this book. I did think it was well written and reasonably clever but for some reason also very predictable to me. I did pick up some of his criticism but I wasn't quite sure what was/were his main target(s). At first I thought it might be the church and religion, and probably was that, too, but after reading a bit about his background it seems it might have been communism (and right wing) and also the cold war that had just "heated" in 1952. In
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
A 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.
"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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