Marcovaldo Italo Calvino

Name: Marcovaldo By Italo Calvino
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Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino

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Summary

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.

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Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino

Marcovaldo 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 *

About Italo Calvino

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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Sku

GOR001987232

ISBN 13

9780099428541

ISBN 10

0099428547

Title

Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino

Author

Italo Calvino

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20010322

Number of pages

144

Prizes

N/A

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Note

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