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

Calvino, Italo.

Published by Random House, 1962

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. Seller Inventory # 28404

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount...
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1962
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition