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
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099428541Number of pages: 144Weight: 106 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 8 mm
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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 publishedThe greatest Italian writer of the twentieth centuryIt 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 unthinkableHe 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 imaginationWhat is so much admired by the readers of Mr. Calvino's later Invisible Cities was already at work in Marcovaldo and with a more cogent narrative drive... Marcovaldo conveys the sensuous,tangible qualities of life
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