Our Ancestors: The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight
by:
Italo Calvino (author)
Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic...
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Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych of moral tales, now published in one volume and all displaying the exuberant talent of a master storyteller.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330261562 (0330261568)
Publish date: December 31st 1980
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 393
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Magical Realism,
Short Stories,
Italian Literature
Series: I nostri antenati -3 (#1)
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