In a kind of macabre re-working of the double theme-and in particular Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde-one side is evil and the other good and the viscount is able to terrorize his subjects in turns via both his piety and malevolence. ‘The Cloven Viscount’ is the story of a viscount whose body is split into two by virtue of jumping in front of a cannonball.
This triptych of stories, in which Calvino coalesces fantasy, folk-tale and pastiche into a set of wonderful, irreverent and beautiful stories and represents one of the high points in Calvino’s oeuvre.
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