SOURCE: “Calvino's Fantastic ‘Ancestors’: the Viscount, the Baron and the Knight,” in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer, 1986, pp. 45–9.
In the following essay, Byrne contends that “controversial though the tales may be, Our Ancestors makes an important contribution to modern literature.”
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