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Maria Luisa Pozzi

Italo Calvino, The Nonexistent Knight "

Have you ever met "The Nonexistent Knight" by Italo Calvino? I do, I read it when it came out and I re-read these days.

narrative that puts on weight

that explores one of his lectures in America.

An example:

Charlemagne browsing the champions of France.

On Paladins: "For more than three hours they were there, it was hot, and was a

afternoon in early summer, a little 'covered, cloudy, in

armor as it was boiling kept in pots on low heat. "

More about paladins:" Suddenly a trumpet: the

puff of wind, and just the sort of silent roar

marine who had heard so far, and it was, you see, a snoring

surly warriors from the throats of metal helmets. "

The king Charlemagne: "reigns and makes war, makes war and reign,

Of the door, seemed a bit 'older."

On Regulation: Paladins reviewed by aging

ruler must lift the visor and show your face, "perhaps p

hy someone else, having better things to do than

take part in the magazine, he could send his

armor with another inside. "

Sui champions eager for revenge: newly enlisted Rambaldo of Roussillon, who wants to avenge his father killed in battle dall'argalif

Isohar. Agilulfo, the knight does not exist, explain the procedure to the young

paladin. "You have to make application to the Superintendent of Duels,

to revenge and Stain of Honor and the reasons

your request, and will consider how best to get in

condition of having the desired satisfaction. "

The bureaucracy is the Superintendent Rambaldo

Marquis de Roussillon, the overall level! Let's see: for

avenge a general, the best procedure is to kill three

more. You can assign three easy, and you're done. "

In this world so different from the imagined, Rambaldo

finds its reference in Agilulfo, the paladin who is

just an empty suit of armor, not eating and not sleeping, but it is

a man - or, better armor-honor, but at dawn

to do concrete activities, such as counting objects,

maintain self-awareness. Because the Dawn "is the hour when things

lose the consistency of the shadow that has accompanied the

night and gradually regain the colors, but meanwhile

across as uncertain limbo, barely touched and almost

glow from the light: the time when it was less sure whether

the world. "

Bello, right? Before leaving, as a gift of Carnival, I propose

paladins who apologizes for his inability to play

so great task: "You have to pity: it is rural girls, although

noble, always lived withdrawn in remote castles and then

convents out that religious services, Triduum, novenas, work

fields, threshing, vintage, flogging of slaves,

incest, fires, hangings, invasion of armies, looting,

rapes, pestilence, we have not seen anything. What can you learn about the

world a poor nun? "

Vista lightness?

Good Reading
Maria Luisa

the words of the nun in charge of collecting the history of

duly informed, "So, you want to avenge your father,

crests of feathers in startled ' still air like a

Well, Calvin is a big one.