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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.
The finale of a powerful saga about female friendship that became the literary hit of the decade. Ferrante's prose is sharp, intimate - like reading a diary of the soul. It reminds us that friendship is war and peace, and the lost girl within us - the key
The novel depicts the tragic fate of Mariuta (Marije Zef) and her younger sister Rosuta. The work shocked contemporaries with its boldness in depicting taboo subjects, and is today considered a classic portrait of female suffering in rural Italy.
The novel is an important representative of verismo, Italian realism, and depicts the lives of people from the south of Italy, especially the conflicts between the poor peasantry and the decaying aristocracy.
One of the most moving and courageous works of world literature of the 20th century. Written as a long monologue by a pregnant woman (Fallaci herself), the book is at once an intimate confession, a feminist manifesto, and a philosophical confrontation wit