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The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount: Two Short Novels.

The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount: Two Short Novels.

The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount: Two Short Novels.

The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount: Two Short Novels.

by Calvino, Italo

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New York:: Random House,, 1962.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with a closed tear to the top edge of the front panel. In The Nonexistent Knight, Agilulf- a knight who is armour only. Ag is part of Charlemagne's army, a shining, titled and tiresome ideal. He has as squire and counterpart a buffoon who is and constantly becomes everything in nature; knight and squire are thus mind and body, or spirit and earth. Agiluf's right to be a knight at all is finally challenged by an outsider's love, and he vanishes, leaving his armour to be filled by a real boy who finally woos and wins the Amazonian nun with whom he had fallen in love. In The Cloven Viscount, the hero has been cut in half in an accident of war. As the bad Viscount, he terrorizes his village; as the good half, he by being too confusedly good. Love again reunites him into that good bad, mind flesh, paradoxical being that is man. The visual images, the playfulness, work well to make it more real.

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Two novellas: the first, a parody of medieval knighthood told by a nun; the second, a fantasy about a nobleman bisected into his good and evil halves. “Bravura pieces... executed with brilliance and brio”(Chicago Tribune). Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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Bookseller
Gregor Rare Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
28404
Title
The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount: Two Short Novels.
Author
Calvino, Italo
Book Condition
Used
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Edition
First Printing of the First US Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Random House,
Place of Publication
New York:
Date Published
1962.
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
Paris in the 1920s

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