Marcovaldo
Douban
ISBN: 9780099428541
author:
Italo Calvino
translator:
William Weaver
publishing house: Vintage Classics
publication date: 2001
-3
binding: Paperback
price: GBP 7.99
number of pages: 144
Or the Seasons in the City
Italo Calvino translator: William Weaver
overview
"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.
