A major theme throughout here is that the narrator is only ever truly successful when she develops the ideas of her double. The two girls are, at least in the mind of the narrator, incomplete without the other. I couldn’t help thinking of this story the entire time I was reading these novels. Both the Italian and Turkish sides of the war get hold of the respective halves of his body and, through the wonders of medicine (and fairy-tales) both halves are brought back to life: one side all good, the other side all bad. It is about a Knight who goes off to fight in Turkey, I think – although, part of me thinks that might be wrong – anyway, he gets hit by an enemy cannon ball that literally splits him in two. I have only read it once and that was a very long time ago. There is a Calvino novella called The Cloven Knight.
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