Our ancestors. Kalvino I.

The real and fantastic in Kalvino's prose are very often intertwined, it was fully manifested in the fairy and parasite trilogy “Our ancestors”, including novels, the names of which speak for themselves. In the “bifurcated Viscount” the protagonist Medardo Di Terralba breaks in two with a cannon core, and two halves remain from him, which begin an independent life. In the “Baron on the tree”, the young Kozimo Pyuvsko Di Rondo decides to live on a tree, which is quite feasible from the point of view of the laws of nature, but it is impossible and fantastic in social terms. In the “Non -existing Knight”, the protagonist of Agilulf, one of the Paladins of the army of Charles the Great, exists only in his armor, without them there is no.