Marcovaldo
Douban
or the Seasons in the City
Italo Calvino translator: Weaver, William
overview
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams-but the results are never the expected ones. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
contents
1. Mushrooms in the city
2. Park-bench vacation
3. The municipal pigeon
4. The city lost in the snow
5. The wasp treatment
6. A Saturady of sun, sand, and sleep
7. The lunch-box
8. The forest on the superhighway
9. The good air
10. A journey with the cows
11. The poisonous rabbit
12. The wrong stop
13. Where the river is more blue?
14. Moon and GNAC
15. The rain and the leaves
16. Marcovaldo at the supermarket
17. Smoke, wind, and soap-bubbles
18. The city all to himself
19. The garden of stubborn cats
20. Santa's Children
