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The Biscounted Viscount is a novel by Italo Calvino published in 1952. It is the first part of the Our Ancestors trilogy, which also includes the short novels The Baron in the Trees from 1957 and The Nonexistent Knight from 1959.
A novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino from 1979. The postmodernist narrative, in the form of a frame story, is about a reader who tries to read the book If One Winter Night a Traveler. Each chapter is divided into two parts.
The plot of the novel follows the life of a young man, Foma Gordeyev, who inherits a large business empire from his powerful and wealthy father.
The trip to the Karst is a small episode in the hero's life, but it perfectly revives the spirit of the turn of the century that is best characterized by Hans Driesch, a scientist, future philosopher, and founder of vitalism.