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  • The Cloven Viscount

  • Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
  • Written by: Italo Calvino
  • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
  • Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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The Cloven Viscount

Written by: Italo Calvino
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
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Publisher's 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 bissected 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. The two halves become rivals for the love of the same woman, fight a bloody duel, and achieve a miraculous resolution.

Now available in an independent volume for the first time, this deliciously bizarre novella is Calvino at his most devious and winning.

©1951 Giulio Einaudi Editiore, S.p.A.; Translation: 1962 William Collns Sons & Company Limited and Random House Inc. (P)2017 Recorded Books
Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Historical
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awesome

such a good story! italo calvino is superb. short story but enthralling. would recommend to all.

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Good writer, okay story

Amazing way of storytelling but the story wasn't for my kind of taste. The narrator is amazing as well.

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