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
- ISBN10 0099428547
- ISBN13 9780099428541
- Publish Date 22 March 2001 (first published 30 August 1983)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Vintage Classics
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 144
- Language English