Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the City - Couverture souple

Calvino, Italo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156572044 ISBN 13 : 9780156572040

Editeur : Mariner Books, 1983

Synopsis

An unskilled worker in a drab northern Italian industrial city of the 1950s and 1960s, Marcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable longing to come a little closer to the unspoiled world of his imagining. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams, gives rein to his fantasies, tries - with ingenuousness than skill - to lessen his burden and that of those around him. The results are never the anticipated ones.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"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)

Quatrième de couverture :

'One of the best works of fiction published' Spectator

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

See Also: Difficult Loves

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0156572044
• ISBN 13: 9780156572040
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 121