The Broken Viscount Author: [Italy] Italo Calvino Publisher: Yilin Press Douban Books Top 250

One of Calvino's "Our Ancestors" trilogy. The "Our Ancestors" trilogy includes: "The Knight of No Return", "The Viscount Who Split in Two", and "The Baron in the Trees". These three stories represent three stages leading to freedom, about how people realize their own experiences: fighting for survival in "The Knight of No Return", pursuing a complete life that is not destroyed by society in "The Viscount Who Split in Two", and there is a path to completeness in "The Baron in the Trees" - this is the non-individualistic completeness achieved through unswerving efforts in personal self-selection. As "open" novels, these three stories first follow the logic of character development, and will begin their new life in the process of unexpected questions and answers triggered by readers. They are the ancestral genealogy of modern people, and each face in them has certain characteristics of the people around us: it is both the author's and the reader's.