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The Nonexistent Knight (Italian: Il cavaliere inesistente) is an allegorical fantasy novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino, first published in Italian in 1959 and in English translation in 1962. The tale explores questions of identity, integration with society, and virtue through the adventures of Agilulf, a medieval knight who exemplifies ...
Zac was also active as a director and screenwriter of animation films. He realized about 20 short films and the experimental feature film The Nonexistent Knight, based on the novel with the same name by Italo Calvino. [1] Zac died of a stroke in his house in 1985. [1]
Cover of the first US edition, published by Random House.. The Cloven Viscount (Italian: Il visconte dimezzato) is a fantasy novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino.It was first published by Einaudi (Turin) in 1952 and in English in 1962 by William Collins, with a translation by Archibald Colquhoun.
The Nonexistent Knight by Pino Zac, 1969 (Italian animated film based on the novel) Amores dificiles by Ana Luisa Ligouri, 1983 (13' Mexican short) L'Aventure d'une baigneuse by Philippe Donzelot, 1991 (14' French short based on The Adventure of a Bather in Difficult Loves )
Montmorency is a young knight whose dreams is to become an alchemist and find out the secret of the Philosopher’s Stone.. When the English army occupy northern France during the Hundred Years War, most of the young students of the Knights School are sent in battle, and the same occurs for Montmorency's secret love, who is apparently killed during the Battle of Azincourt; after this, everyone ...
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The protagonist of the story is Yōtarō Hanabusa, a member of the surviving 21st century Knights, called the "Knights of the world." Wanting to be a normal person rather than a knight, he leaves everyone behind to set out on his own, but old habits die hard and he finds that like it or not he reflexively acts like a "White Knight" any time someone's in trouble.
A manga adaptation illustrated by Lee Brocco began serialization on Kodansha's YanMaga Web manga website and app on February 11, 2022. [5] The manga was later transferred to the Weekly Young Magazine on September 9, 2024. [6] The manga's chapters have been compiled into twelve tankōbon volumes as of December 2024. [7]