The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount
by Italo Calvino
Published by Harvest / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977
$15.00
Two Calvino novellas in one volume — The Cloven Viscount (1952), in which a medieval nobleman is split in two by a cannonball, his good half and evil half wandering separately through the world; and The Nonexistent Knight (1959), in which a suit of armor that contains no body at all turns out to be the most dedicated soldier in Charlemagne's army. Both are fables that read as though they were written by someone who found morality both serious and absurd.
Cover art signed by Alexander Calder. The Harvest/HBJ paperback is the standard English-language edition of this pairing. We love a beautiful paperback from the 1970s.
A unique find, and we only have one.
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