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Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction

Marcovaldo

Italo Calvino (author), William Weaver (translator)

Paperback Published on: 22/03/2001; Language: English, Italian (Original language of a translated text)

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Another classic from one of my favourite authors!

This is yet another fantastic, genre-bending and highly ambitious yet incredibly rewarding collection of short stories from possibly my all-time favourite ... READ MORE

Sam E

Synopsis

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