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Our Ancestors
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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.’The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists’ The Times
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| Weight | 0.279 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.4 × 13.1 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 400 |
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| Year Published | 1992-2-20 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 009943086X |
| About The Author | Italo Calvino (Author, Introducer) Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003. |
Calvino's refusal to be glum set him apart from other modernists. His marvellous Fifties trilogy, Our Ancestors, brought us allegorical fables about a cloven viscount, a non-existent knight and a baron who swings from the trees |
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| Other text | Calvino's genius lies not so much in this tantalising conceit, but the brilliance and ingenuity with which he pulls it off…A dazzling display of literary fireworks |
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