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.
- ISBN13 9780850485547
- Publish Date 1 August 1993 (first published 30 August 1983)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint European Schoolbooks Limited
- Format Paperback
- Language Italian