Marcovaldo – Italo Calvino

Marcovaldo – Italo Calvino

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Twenty stories, structured around the seasons as the yearly cycle revolves five times. This is Calvino’s magical realist urban fantasy.

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.

‘Delightful and rewarding as always’ Observer

‘The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists’ The Times

About the author

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino’s posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.

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