Marcovaldo: Or the Seasons in the City (Picador Books)

by W.Weaver (Translator), ItaloCalvino (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1985

  $3.58

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $12.04

  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.