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Beheading the Heads

Italo Calvino

First published November 1995
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

{{tr|Tim Parks}}. Editor's note: "Il Caffè, XIV, 4, 4 August 1969; the author's note says: 'The following pages are sketches for chapters of a book I have been planning for some time, a book that aims to offer a new model for society with a political system based on the ritual execution of the entire governing class at regular intervals ...'"

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1995 Cover Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories Pantheon Books Collection 142
September 1996 Cover Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories Vintage (UK) Collection 142
October 1996 Cover Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories Vintage Books Collection 142
May 2009 Cover Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection |23