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Marcovaldo: Italo Calvino

Marcovaldo: Italo Calvino

by Italo Calvino (Author), William Weaver (Translator)

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    Paperback 2001

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    Paperback 1985

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Synopsis

"Marcovaldo" is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider. As always with Calvino, nothing is quite as it seems.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 22 Mar 2001
ISBN 10: 0099428547
ISBN 13: 9780099428541
Book Overview: 'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times

Media Reviews
Calvino is surely among the handful of living writers that can be called, without hesitation, great. Each book by Calvino is a completely original conception. Marcovaldo is one of the best works of fiction published * Spectator *
The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century * Guardian *
It is the refinement, the oddness and the humour of the thoughts he gets which make Calvino a rare pleasure to read; he is a match for Borges as he stealthily patrols the limits of the unthinkable -- John Sturrock * New Review *
He will continue to glitter, this strange, lonely prospector in the universe of words, well into the next millennium and after, a master in the empire of the imagination * Independent *
Author Bio
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923. He grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985