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Marcovaldo
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Description
In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial city in the 1950s and '60s, struggling to reconcile his old country habits with his current urban life.
Marcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable longing for the unspoiled rural world of his imagination. Much to the continuing puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams and gives rein to his fantasies, whether it's sleeping in the great outdoors on a park bench, following a stray cat, or trying to catch wasps. Unfortunately, the results are never quite what he anticipates.
Spanning from the 1950s to the 1960s, the twenty stories in Marcovaldo are alternately comic and melancholy, farce and fantasy. Throughout, Calvino's unassuming masterpiece "conveys the sensuous, tangible qualities of life" (New York Times).
Translated from the Italian by William Weaver.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
130
Release Date:
1983-11-16
Publication Date:
2023-08-11
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0156572044
ISBN13:
9780156572040
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
159 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
9 cm
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