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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 collection of 41 short stories: the characters act like "automatons" – mechanical, listless, incapable of authentic reaction to life's problems. Modern man alienated, trapped in routine, sex, money and passivity, without will or feelings.
The novel follows a married couple, Eduardo and Charlotte, who, after years of separation, are living in harmony again on their estate. When they invite two guests to join them, their emotional connections begin to change.
The novel follows three women: Diane, a noblewoman; Catherine Simonidzé, a feminist; and the real Clara Zetkin, a communist. Through their destinies, the crisis of bourgeois society, women's emancipation, and the path to communism are depicted.
Sana Perić's first novel in which the author offers a new view of everyday life by passing autobiographical elements through the filter of philosophy in which, as suggested by the title evoking Giordano Bruno and Leibniz, the cosmic intertwines with the p
In Germany in 1784, a runaway priest with ruined eyes and a two-meter-tall giant who attracts both sexes travel as unlikely friends. The novel follows their adventures, encounters, and existential conflicts in a turbulent historical period.