The Viscount in Two (calvino Centenary Edition)
by G
About This Novel
On the battlefield in the Middle Ages, Viscount Medardo leaped on his horse and drew his sword, but was blasted in half by a Turkish cannon. A complete man is thus divided into half a villain and half a saint. The Viscount said: "Not only am I torn and incomplete, but you are too, and everyone is." Every encounter between two creatures in the world is a fight between each other, and people experience the "complete" world in the fierce battle with themselves. Although the two-half Viscount Medardo eventually returned to being a whole person, it was clear that without that split, just one whole Viscount was not enough to make the world whole. On the battlefield in the Middle Ages, Viscount Medardo leaped on his horse and drew his sword, but was blasted in half by a Turkish cannon. A complete man is thus divided into half a villain and half a saint. The Viscount said: "Not only am I torn and incomplete, but you are too, and everyone is." Every encounter between two creatures in the world is a fight between each other, and people experience the "complete" world in the fierce battle with themselves. Although the two-half Viscount Medardo eventually returned to being a whole person, it was clear that without that split, just one whole Viscount was not enough to make the world whole.
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