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 Originally published as two distinct volumes: 'Il visconte dimezzato' (1952) and 'Il cavaliere inesistente' (1959). Also published in a single volume with 'The baron in the trees' (Il barone rampante, 1957) as 'Our Ancestors' (I nostri antenati, 1960).
This is the third time I've read.The Cloven Viscount. one of the very few books I've read three times. This short novel is the first in a loose trilogy of madly inventive tales called OUR ANCESTORS and is a fitting start to one of the most amazing story cycles in literary history!.The Cloven Viscount. tells the bizarre tale of Medardo, Viscount of Terralba, who is bisected by a cannonball during the wars against the Turks.
Both halves of him survive independently: in one side is gathered all This is the third time I've read.The Cloven Viscount. one of the very few books I've read three times. This short novel is the first in a loose trilogy of madly inventive tales called OUR ANCESTORS and is a fitting start to one of the most amazing story cycles in literary history!.The Cloven Viscount. tells the bizarre tale of Medardo, Viscount of Terralba, who is bisected by a cannonball during the wars against the Turks.
Both halves of him survive independently: in one side is gathered all his bad character traits, in the other all his good intentions. Both halves separately make their way back to Terralba where they commence to cause a great deal of mischief: the Bad 'Un is malicious and cruel; the Good 'Un is virtuous in the extreme but ironically ends up causing almost as much trouble as his worse half! After many adventures and intrigues involving a colony of Huguenots, the leper village of Pratofungo, wills-o'-the-wisps and the buxom peasant girl Pamela, both halves are reconciled in the aftermath of a duel.The Cloven Viscount.
is truly strange and utterly implausible: sometimes it even fails to obey the rules of its own twisted internal logic. But it is charming and witty and sets the stage for the following two volumes in OUR ANCESTORS, both of which are among Calvino's finest works! Last night, I finished the first novella in this book, Calvino's The Nonexistent Night, and as Calvino stands among my favorite novelists, I can't say a bad word about it.
The story revolves around a suit of armor with nothing inside except the nonexistent knight of Charlemagne's army, Agilulf, who (dis)embodies chivalric perfection. With tender wit and subtle humor, Cavlino traces the adventures of Agilulf as he travels throughout Europe and North Africa to prove the chastity of a virgin he'd s Last night, I finished the first novella in this book, Calvino's The Nonexistent Night, and as Calvino stands among my favorite novelists, I can't say a bad word about it. The story revolves around a suit of armor with nothing inside except the nonexistent knight of Charlemagne's army, Agilulf, who (dis)embodies chivalric perfection.
With tender wit and subtle humor, Cavlino traces the adventures of Agilulf as he travels throughout Europe and North Africa to prove the chastity of a virgin he'd saved to earn his knighthood fifteen years prior after another knight contests that the woman couldn't have been a virgin since she was his mother. Of course, you can get all of that from reading the back of the book. What you don't get is the ways in which Cavlino pokes fun at the act of war as senseless and futile without being mean or vicious about it (you catch more bees with honey, right?) or the way in which the plot is resolved with a clever Shakespearian twist of mistaken identities unmasked. At 140 pages, it was a quick and quirky read, light-hearted and fun in the way it deals with some weighty philosophical topics, although not necessarily a classic in the vein of The Baron in the Trees or If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
The Cloven Viscount, on the other hand, isn't quite as interesting as the first novella. It's a rather simplistic parable about the nature of good and evil in the human soul. An Italian Viscount goes off to fight in the crusades and is blow into two halves by a cannonball. One half is pure good, the other pure evil, and eventually in order for the kingdom to exist in peace these two halves need to be rejoined to form a full person. Although it's a fun read, the idea is rather simplistic and has been summed up in other reviews here. Calvino is my master.
There is no better writer of tales. I really have to give credit to this Archibald Colquhoun, who translated most of what I've read by the man. 'The Nonexistent Knight' is Calvino's funniest story.
A perfectionist knight, an empty suit of armor, can only retain being from constant organization and thoughtfulness. Just thinking of this character's precision makes me smile. He sits at table with other knights, mincing his food into neat rows that he stacks and reorganizes, shi Calvino is my master. There is no better writer of tales. I really have to give credit to this Archibald Colquhoun, who translated most of what I've read by the man. 'The Nonexistent Knight' is Calvino's funniest story. A perfectionist knight, an empty suit of armor, can only retain being from constant organization and thoughtfulness.
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Just thinking of this character's precision makes me smile. He sits at table with other knights, mincing his food into neat rows that he stacks and reorganizes, shifting wine from glass to glass, constantly ordering clean plates, all because he has no mouth or stomach with which to eat, and all the while correcting his knighted colleagues. Without a doubt, this story has the funniest seduction in the history of literature, involving a lusty noblewoman who lures knights to her castle via staged bear attack, who then proceeds to make love to a man who doesn't exist, a suit of armor that spends most of the time moving the bed for the right light. 'The Cloven Viscount' is a more gruesome story. A man's cruel side survives being separated from the rest of himself by cannonball. He hops around his homeland, administering violence, halving things with his sword so that they resemble himself. This is all part of a trilogy that is sometimes called 'Our Ancestors' which includes the equally wonderful 'The Baron In The Trees'.
Reading Calvino just makes me feel incredible, especially these novels. I had tried to read another book by Calvino before, and could not get through the first ten pages. This time I was determined; I heard these two tales were his best, etc. Well, I struggled through them and made it, but I am not sure if I will ever read Calvino again. The writing did seem clunky, and I also wondered if this is due to translation, early career, or just simply a stylistic choice on Calvino's part. When the language is not there, it is hard to find the motivation to continue for me, I had tried to read another book by Calvino before, and could not get through the first ten pages. This time I was determined; I heard these two tales were his best, etc.
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Well, I struggled through them and made it, but I am not sure if I will ever read Calvino again. The writing did seem clunky, and I also wondered if this is due to translation, early career, or just simply a stylistic choice on Calvino's part. When the language is not there, it is hard to find the motivation to continue for me, at least in fiction. One good thing I can say, though, is that there are some gems here and there; some sentences are delightful in their concise wisdom. The first tale is certainly the more humorous of the two. I kept thinking if only the Monty Python would adapt it to the screen, it would be hilarious. (Oh, wait, The Holy Grail!) The second tale seemed more moralistic.
But with both, it is not clear what Calvino is trying to do, trying to say, and where the story is going at any given point. In the end, you get somewhere, but it is either too predictable - and after such an unpredictable ride, it is strange that the end be so trite - or too eh, whatever. In the end, the stories suffered from exactly the same ailment that haunts some films of Terry Gilliam. Like the Adventures of Baron Munchausen or The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, where the fantastical images and ideas float about, bumping into each other, not quite making much sense, and dragging on for a while before they puff out in exhaustion, the Nonesixtent Knight, but especially the Cloven Viscount puff out and away, out of memory.
Italo Calvino is a brilliant comic writer, and I love reading his tales, which seem plucked from the Italian countryside. He's not afraid to be bizarre, too, as in the first story, which recounts the exploits of an animate suit of armor in Charlemagne's army-so dignified and courteous, yet ambivalent of his own nonexistence. His love scenes, creaking in full, hollow armor, are quite funny. The second story involves a viscount who gets torn in half by a cannonball while fighting the Ottoman Turk Italo Calvino is a brilliant comic writer, and I love reading his tales, which seem plucked from the Italian countryside. He's not afraid to be bizarre, too, as in the first story, which recounts the exploits of an animate suit of armor in Charlemagne's army-so dignified and courteous, yet ambivalent of his own nonexistence. His love scenes, creaking in full, hollow armor, are quite funny. The second story involves a viscount who gets torn in half by a cannonball while fighting the Ottoman Turks.
One half returns home in a wicked state, while the other half returns, entirely virtuous. Now, at times while reading I wonder, why didn't I think of this? With Italo Calvino, that's never a worry.
The stories gallop towards you from a great distance and a strange land, but the warmth of the voice and its gentle, ironic humor, are enough to tickle you up-close. World conditions were still confused in the era when this took place. It was not rare then to find names and thoughts and forms and institutions that corresponded to nothing in existence. But at the same time the world was polluted with objects and capacities and persons who lacked any name or distinguishing mark.
It was a period when the will and determination to exist, to leave a trace, to rub up against all that existed, was not wholly used since there were many who did nothing about it-from World conditions were still confused in the era when this took place. It was not rare then to find names and thoughts and forms and institutions that corresponded to nothing in existence. But at the same time the world was polluted with objects and capacities and persons who lacked any name or distinguishing mark. It was a period when the will and determination to exist, to leave a trace, to rub up against all that existed, was not wholly used since there were many who did nothing about it-from poverty or ignorance or simply from finding things bearable as they were-and so a certain amount was lost into the void. Maybe too there came a point when this diluted will and consciousness of self was condensed, turned to sediment, as imperceptible watery particles condense into banks of clouds; and then maybe this sediment merged by chance or instinct, with some name or family or military rank or duties or regulations, above all in an empty armor, for in times when armor was necessary even for a man who existed, how much f themore was it for one who didn't. Thus it was that Agilulf of the Guildivern had begun to act and acquire glory for himself.
When I love, I really love him. It is for the witty way that he plays with narrative, the playful way he can dip in and out of reality. This book was nice taste of what I like about him. It combines two novellas which, along with a third story not included in this edition, make up the collection.
The first, from which the above excerpt is taken, tells of a knight who is simply an empty suit of armor. He's a very perfect and successful suit of armor, but he can't eat or sleep or do anything a normal knight could do. And when he finds that his knighthood may rest on an error, so that his rank and accomplishments may not be real either, he is sent into a rather understandable identity crisis which leads to a major quest. Some of the scenes in this novella could easily be source material for some of the vignettes in Monty Python's Holy Grail (it's been too long since I've read Arthurian legend to know if some of them go back that far).
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The second novella is about a Viscount who is cut in two in a battle. The half people can find is stitched up on the field by battle surgeons and returns home, but turns out to be quite nasty and evil. Later, the other half, which is all good, but in some ways equally problematic, shows up as well, having survived after all. This is an amusing meditation on the different sides of each of us, and what it might be like if either existed, unbalanced and alone. I look forward to reading the third novel in the set, which I have under separate cover, waiting on my shelves.
Sir Agilulf Emo Bertrandin of the Guildivern is a nonexistent knight; however, as Charlemagne puts it, 'for someone who does not exist,' he 'seems in irksomely fine form.' The story sounds nutty as so many crazy things are happening as if everything is just fine but once you keep your disbelief at the background and delve into what is really going on, the logic of the story begins to grandiosely emerge. Sir Agiluf is the envy of the ambitious Raimbaut, is ever-seductive to Bradamante, and is th Sir Agilulf Emo Bertrandin of the Guildivern is a nonexistent knight; however, as Charlemagne puts it, 'for someone who does not exist,' he 'seems in irksomely fine form.' The story sounds nutty as so many crazy things are happening as if everything is just fine but once you keep your disbelief at the background and delve into what is really going on, the logic of the story begins to grandiosely emerge. Sir Agiluf is the envy of the ambitious Raimbaut, is ever-seductive to Bradamante, and is the most charming knight of the widow Lady Priscilla. He represents the Lacanian ultraperfect yet nonexistent Other, i.e. The misperception of the superego, and happens to be the omnipresent exasperation of his fellow paladins.
The story gradually assumes new fascinating turns. The ultraperfect Sir Agiluf turns out to be a vexatious caviler whose knighthood is later put under question. You begin to realize the absurdity of the whole stuff and as ultraperfect is supposedly a positive word, you are left with either of the following choices: perfection is not what you once thought, or has not been positive at the very first place. Calvino masterly depicts how grotesque the extremism of whatever kind can be. He further elucidates this point in the story of the cloven viscount, where the once beloved good half; forget about the devil one, is found to be a pestiferous headache.
This is a witty story, whose nature is far from being boring and preachy. I cannot help telling you how skilfully the horrendous nature and the vacuous meaning of the wars is bared. The inane and bloody duels are prearranged through incredibly bureaucratic processes, and are further infuriated by translators who are there only to interpret the shouted insults. The knights seems to be blunderingly innocuous but are capable of causing disasters. These novellas were written early in calvino's career, yet are colored with many of the literary elements for which he'd come to be known and loved. A fabulist of the highest order, italo's tales are gently conveyed, with nary a smidgen of sanctimoniousness to be found. With unassuming literary prowess and ample humor, calvino (whose snubbing by the swedish academy is unpardonable) possessed one of the most unique imaginations (to say nothing of styles) in all of modern literature.
Both the nonex these novellas were written early in calvino's career, yet are colored with many of the literary elements for which he'd come to be known and loved. A fabulist of the highest order, italo's tales are gently conveyed, with nary a smidgen of sanctimoniousness to be found. With unassuming literary prowess and ample humor, calvino (whose snubbing by the swedish academy is unpardonable) possessed one of the most unique imaginations (to say nothing of styles) in all of modern literature. Both the nonexistent knight and the cloven viscount are fantastic stories woven with an ease and simplicity that leave considerable room for the reader to ponder calvino's manifest moral offerings. While clearly not his intent, calvino's remarkable inventiveness exposes the lack of creativity with which many authors are (somehow) still able to ply their trade.
Too, italo's characters, main and secondary, are some of the most quaint, eccentric, and lovable ever to animate a page. ' so of love as of war i shall give a picture as best i can imagine it. The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the nothing one has understood of it, but life begins again at the end of the page when one realises that one knew nothing whatsoever.' from the nonexistent knight.
Ligt het aan mij, of is het echt zo dat weinig mensen Italo Calvino kennen? Ik leerde deze schrijver kennen omdat iemand mij De baron in de bomen tipte. Geheel terecht. Straf, want ik hou niet bepaald van magisch realisme en laat Calvino een exponent van dit genre zijn.
Daarom stortte ik mij een tijdje geleden op De gespleten burggraaf, een boek dat dat duidelijk van dezelfde hand als als De baron in de bomen. Opnieuw een adellijke type, opnieuw een verhaal dat zich goeddeels in de natuur afspeel Ligt het aan mij, of is het echt zo dat weinig mensen Italo Calvino kennen? Ik leerde deze schrijver kennen omdat iemand mij De baron in de bomen tipte. Geheel terecht.
Straf, want ik hou niet bepaald van magisch realisme en laat Calvino een exponent van dit genre zijn. Daarom stortte ik mij een tijdje geleden op De gespleten burggraaf, een boek dat dat duidelijk van dezelfde hand als als De baron in de bomen. Opnieuw een adellijke type, opnieuw een verhaal dat zich goeddeels in de natuur afspeelt, opnieuw een totaal van de pot gerukt uitgangspunt. En toch werkt het. Ik heb er opnieuw van genoten, al stoorde ik me wel een beetje aan de net-iets-te-opzichtige moraal. Ja, ik ga nog boeken van Calvino lezen.
I think what I like about Calvino is that his novels feel like the work of a man who finds so much joy in reading and imagination and tries to write novels that capture that feeling. I don't think there's ever any agenda with him, other than to give the simple pleasure of reading. Like The Baron in the Trees, this feels like a fairy tale in the best sense.
Fantastic events are treated as being barely out of the ordinary and the impossible feels logical. I also like how the prejudices and supersti I think what I like about Calvino is that his novels feel like the work of a man who finds so much joy in reading and imagination and tries to write novels that capture that feeling. I don't think there's ever any agenda with him, other than to give the simple pleasure of reading. Like The Baron in the Trees, this feels like a fairy tale in the best sense. Fantastic events are treated as being barely out of the ordinary and the impossible feels logical. I also like how the prejudices and superstitions of the era they take place in are portrayed as objective fact.
And I love how he uses a historical base to go off in the most non-historical directions possible. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, As someone with autism, I can say that the character Gurduloo from the Non-Existent Knight is a perfect metaphor for what it's like to have autism. You first see Gurduloo pretending to be a duck as a group of soldiers walk past, but immediately afterward, Gurduloo pretends to be an acorn. Gurduloo has no self-concept: he is whatever he happens to see.
If he's with ducks, he's a duck. If he's with acorns, he's an acorn. If he's drinking soup, 'all is soup.' Autism is a lack of self-concept like t As someone with autism, I can say that the character Gurduloo from the Non-Existent Knight is a perfect metaphor for what it's like to have autism. You first see Gurduloo pretending to be a duck as a group of soldiers walk past, but immediately afterward, Gurduloo pretends to be an acorn. Gurduloo has no self-concept: he is whatever he happens to see.
If he's with ducks, he's a duck. If he's with acorns, he's an acorn.
If he's drinking soup, 'all is soup.' Autism is a lack of self-concept like this. We don't extricate ourselves from the world and the things in it, so we assume that everything in it is a part of us, and that we are a part of everything. See this in how autistic people get 'lost in' obsessions and how they tend not to like change.
For if you're identified with whatever you're doing, to switch tasks would, literally, be death. Moreover, like Gurduloo does, you can lose track of who's supposed to say what, or even who is who, is a conversation. Gurduloo says this to Charlemagne, for instance: “I touch my nose with the earth. I fall to my feet at your knees. I declare myself an august servant of your most humble majesty.
Order and I will obey myself!” He brandished a spoon tied to his belt “And when your majesty says, ‘I order command and desire,’ and do this with your scepter, as I do, with this, d’you see? And when you shout as I shout, ‘I orderrr commanddd and desirrrre!’ you subjects must all obey me or I’ll have you strung up, you first there with that beard and silly old face.” People with autism are identified with whatever they're doing. This has a good side and a bad side.
It's good because there is an ecstasy that comes from completely losing yourself in your surroundings, as the Knights of the Grail show in this book (and the late autistic author Donna Williams shows in her book 'Autism and Sensing: The Unlost Instinct'), but it's bad because we therefore end up being 'prisoner of the world's stuff.' We are beneath everything. So sometimes we try to have a distinct identity, and often (though hopefully not always, it tends to be devoid of the life we otherwise completely lose ourselves in.
So we are either like Gurduloo, who exists but doesn't think he does, or like the Non-Existent Knight, an empty suit of armor that fights in battles, who doesn't exsit but thinks he does. The first is the stereotypical low-functioning autistic person. The second is the Big-Bang-Theory Asperger type. Existence is nice, but so is non-existence.
The Cloven Viscount is a novella by the famed Italian writer Italo Calvino. Together with The Baron in the Trees, and the Nonexistent Knight, it forms Calvino’s popular Our Ancestors Trilogy. The Cloven Viscount The Cloven Viscount is a fantastic novella about a Viscount who is exactly as the name implies – cloven. At the start of the novel, an unfortunate accident befalls Viscount Medardo on the battlefield in a war between Christians and Turks. Miserable upon finding himself split in half, Medard The Cloven Viscount is a novella by the famed Italian writer Italo Calvino. Together with The Baron in the Trees, and the Nonexistent Knight, it forms Calvino’s popular Our Ancestors Trilogy.
The Cloven Viscount The Cloven Viscount is a fantastic novella about a Viscount who is exactly as the name implies – cloven. At the start of the novel, an unfortunate accident befalls Viscount Medardo on the battlefield in a war between Christians and Turks. Miserable upon finding himself split in half, Medardo travels back home to claim his birthright as Viscount of Terralba.
Shortly after his arrival, it becomes evident to all who live in the village that the half of Medardo which has returned to the village is his evil half. Evil Medardo does not waste any time, and busies himself with coming up with ingenious ways of committing malicious acts toward the townspeople. Medardo’s evil half tortures small animals, destroys everything around him, and doesn’t give a second thought to killing or injuring both guilty and innocent people alike. Like his bad half, Medardo’s good half decided one day, to come back to his hometown.
The villagers, who at first could not tell the difference between the two halves, were confused at the Viscount’s sudden change of demeanor and random acts of kindness. They soon realize, to their amazement, that it is Viscount Medardo’s other half – his good half, which was responsible for all the good deeds in the village. Naturally, his good half is the exact opposite of his evil half. Good Medardo devotes his life to performing selfless acts for the betterment of the community, or so he thinks.
He tends to the poor, the weak, and the lame, he counsels and preaches against immoral and impious acts. As much as the villagers hated living with the evil Medardo in their midst, they also hated having the good Medardo around. Good Medardo’s acts of kindess, to them, was just as bad as evil Medardo’s acts of maliciousness and evil. Through Medardo’s opposite halves, Italo Calvino illustrates two opposite sides of a person that must co-exist in order for him to be complete.
A completely evil person, set on destroying everything around him, will eventually destroy himself, just as a selfless person, who dedicates himself to the woes of other people, with no regard for his own well-being, will eventually hurt himself. A person who is completely good and pious, or is completely evil, cannot and does not exist.
However, in his idea that man has two opposing sides inside him, I feel that Calvino is saying that just as every good person has a cruel, unjust side, a person generally classified as evil must have a good, compassionate side. In this way, I feel that Calvino sees humanity in an optimistic light. The villagers hatred for evil Medardo, and later, for good Medardo illustrates that an excess of kidness and morality is just as bad as an excess of cruelty. Random acts of kindness, though well meant can lead to harmful conclusions, just as a seemingly cruel act, can sometimes produce good results.
Another aspect of the story, I feel, is the concept of incompleteness brought about by youth and inexperience. In the beginning, it is the Viscount’s youth and inexperience that lead him to the battlefield to his unfortunate accident. This aspect can also be seen in Medardo’s young nephew, who is also the narrator the story. The young boy fills his days wandering the village and forest, looking for adventures and interesting activities.
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He is equally fascinated and repelled by both halves of his uncle, and by the other people in the village. The young narrator admits to youth being a form on incompleteness. He daydreams all day about fantastic stories, and yearns for adventure.
In the end, both he and Viscount Medardo are wiser than they were at the beginning of the novel. Unfortunately, unlike his uncle, who is older, and is therefore, more complete, he is disappointed with the eventual onset of adulthood – of having responsibilities and forever chasing after things that can not be attained or understood. Calvino yet again creates some fantastical plots and does a strong job in what is two novelas that are reminiscent of long fairy tales. Don't get me wrong, this is still a very good book, and is exactly what I have come to expect out of Calvino, but he doesn't totally kill it like he has with his others.
The 3 stars is a symptom of everything of his now getting judged against himself rather than the world at large. The first is about a knight who is only armor. He moves the armor and does everyth Calvino yet again creates some fantastical plots and does a strong job in what is two novelas that are reminiscent of long fairy tales.
Don't get me wrong, this is still a very good book, and is exactly what I have come to expect out of Calvino, but he doesn't totally kill it like he has with his others. The 3 stars is a symptom of everything of his now getting judged against himself rather than the world at large.
The first is about a knight who is only armor. He moves the armor and does everything through sheer will power because he doesn't actually exist, so can't do anything with a body. Calvino does a fun job with Agilulf (the non-existent knight), Gurduloo (his squire, who is unsure whether he himself exists), Raimbaut (a young knight who becomes drawn to Agilulf), Bradamante (female knight, who Raimbaut falls for, but who has fallen for Agilulf, even though they can't make nookie because he doesn't exist), and Torrismund (young noble who claims that Agilulf's claim of knighthood is false, thus leading to lots of searching and knight errant shenanigans by all, and the eventual tying together of the whole story). The characters really bring the plot together and there is plenty of irony and misunderstanding. Could have used a little extra pop at the end. The second is about a viscount from Genoa who goes to war and decides to attack a cannon straight on. Spoiler alert: bad idea, the cannon ball blows right through him and rips him in half.
The medics save exactly half his body (cut down the middle head to toe) and that half returns to Genoa. It turns out the half that returned was the entirely evil half of the viscount and he begins to wreak havoc on his land. Eventually (and not surprisingly) the all good half of the viscount also returns. Obviously a totally good person gets on everyone's nerves after a while, so the whole town gets fed up with both halves of the viscount. Fortunately Pamela is there to save the day.
Could have been a little less predictable. Calvino, Italo. “THE NONEXISTENT KNIGHT” and “THE CLOVEN VISCOUNT.” (1959, 1951). Calvino, born in Cuba but raised in Italy, was a prolific writer of stories, novels, and poems. He is best known for his short “fables” based on both Italian folklore and on legends of the knights of medieval fame. The two fables in this book are Calvino’s take-offs on the themes of knights and their honor.
“The Nonexistent Knight” tells of Sir Agilulf, a knight who has all the appurtenances of knighthood, but Calvino, Italo. “THE NONEXISTENT KNIGHT” and “THE CLOVEN VISCOUNT.” (1959, 1951). Calvino, born in Cuba but raised in Italy, was a prolific writer of stories, novels, and poems. He is best known for his short “fables” based on both Italian folklore and on legends of the knights of medieval fame. The two fables in this book are Calvino’s take-offs on the themes of knights and their honor.
“The Nonexistent Knight” tells of Sir Agilulf, a knight who has all the appurtenances of knighthood, but doesn’t exist. He has joined Charlemaigne’s army in his fight against the Saracens. Agilulf has a spendid suit of white armour, but when he lifts his faceplate, there is no one there – although when he speaks he is heard by all. He befriends a young man who is out to avenge his father’s death at the hands of a certain infidel.
Raimbaut, the young avenger, learns a lot from Agilulf, who is a stickler for military detail. The story of these two is actually being told by a young nun in a convent, Sister Theodora, who is also involved in the past history of Agilulf – and becomes involved with Raimbaut, also. The story is an absurd takeoff on medieval legends of the heroics of the knights and of the common stories told about and by them. There is no real point, other than to create a pastiche of a knight/fairy tale. “The Cloven Viscount,” is better known, and is the story – in a macabre fantasy form bordering on science fiction – of a nobleman who had been almost bisected by a cannon ball in a battle against the Turks. One half of him returns to his feudal estate and takes up an evil and lavish life. The other half becomes the virtuous half and leads a commendable life.
The two halves are ultimately re-united after fighting a bloody duel over the love of the same woman. These are strange stories from the Calvino canon that are difficult to classify. They are more in the vein of Monty Python spoofs on the Middle Ages that extensions of the fairy tale genre. Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels.
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His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979). His style is not easily classified; much of his writing has an air of the fantastic Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979). His style is not easily classified; much of his writing has an air of the fantastic reminiscent of fairy tales ( Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more 'realistic' and in the scenic mode of observation ( Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simply 'modern'.
He wrote: ' My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.'
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