The Cloven Viscount

شوالیه ناموجود هم یکی دیگر از شاهکارهای رمان پست مدرنیستی است که باز بر پایه اصل پارودی یا نقیضه سرایی شکل گرفته......more

This is a very sweet, beautifully written, and most importantly, short book. It is exactly the right length, and that is something it is hard to be. Most things are either slightly too long or somewhat too short. It lasts exactly the length that its ideas and the beauty of its prose can sustain and......more

World conditions were still confused in the era when this took place. It was not rare then to find names and thoughts and forms and institutions that corresponded to nothing in existence. But at the same time the world was polluted with objects and capacities and persons who lacked any name or disti......more

Calvino is my master. There is no better writer of tales. I really have to give credit to this Archibald Colquhoun, who translated most of what I've read by the man. 'The Nonexistent Knight' is Calvino's funniest story. A perfectionist knight, an empty suit of armor, can only retain being from consta......more