In this novel, a man whose motto is "Famine and plague" leads an isolated religious community who have forgotten all the doctrines of their religion, but spend all day working for fear of accidentally sinning.
In this novel, a man whose motto is "Famine and plague" leads an isolated religious community who have forgotten all the doctrines of their religion, but spend all day working for fear of accidentally sinning. One character leaves cryptic messages to a doctor to indicate his patients' ailments such as tying feeding chickens to a terrace whose droppings are meant to signifydiarrhea. A doctor in this novel traveled the globe on Captain Cook's voyages but saw nothing because he never leftft his cabin and becomes obsessed with catching will-o-wisps in bottles for scientifiÂc research. The isolated Huguenots living in the hilltops of Col Gerbido are juxtaposed against the colony of fun-loving lepers in the seaside village Pratofungo. The narrator of this novel is the title character's eight-year old nephew, who watches his uncle go on a rampage cutting frogs and sparrows inhalf. Dr. Trewlawney heals the title character so he can marry Pamela, who wants to reconcile "The Good 'Un" and "The Bad 'Un." For 10 points, name this novel that begins when a cannonball splits Medardo, the title nobleman from Terralba, into two halves, written by Italo Calvino.
In this novel, a man whose motto is "Famine and plague" leads an isolated religious community who have forgotten all the doctrines of their religion, but spend all day working for fear of accidentally sinning.
The Cloven Viscount [or Il Visconte Dimezzato]