The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino audiobook

The Cloven Viscount

By Italo Calvino
Read by Edoardo Ballerini

Recorded Books, Recorded Books, Inc. 9780544960060

The Our Ancestors Series: Book 1

Unabridged

Format : Retail CD (In Stock)
  • $29.99

    ISBN: 9781664462830

Runtime: 2.57 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

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 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. 

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Ironical and successful…The visual images, the playfulness, work better and more simply in this—to make it more real.” Kirkus Reviews

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Author Bio: Italo Calvino

Author Bio: Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (1923-1985) attained worldwide renown as one of the twentieth century’s greatest storytellers. He was awarded the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1982. He was born in Cuba and grew up in San Remo, Italy. He began his writing career as an essayist and a journalist but is best known for his fiction, including Invisible Cities, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Marcovaldo, and Mr. Palomar, among others.

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Available Formats : Retail CD
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 2.57
Audience: Adult
Language: English