   == Rating ==  A note to state firmly that Calvino's novel The Cloven Viscount along with the trilogy, Our Ancestors, deserve a mid-importance rating at the very least. But don't take my word for it: Harold Bloom, John Barth, Salmon Rushdie, Seamus Heaney among many others have all championed Calvino's work. So I'll be ignoring the low importance assessment nonsense rated here as I build on the article in due course.   