Marcovaldo - (Helen and Kurt Wolff Books) by Italo Calvino (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>A charming portrait of one man's dreams and schemes, by "the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century" (<i>Guardian</i>).</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A charming portrait of one man's dreams and schemes, by "the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century" (<i>Guardian</i>).<br/> <br/></b>In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial city in the 1950s and '60s, struggling to reconcile his old country habits with his current urban life.<br/> <br/>Marcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable longing for the unspoiled rural world of his imagination. Much to the continuing puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams and gives rein to his fantasies, whether it's sleeping in the great outdoors on a park bench, following a stray cat, or trying to catch wasps. Unfortunately, the results are never quite what he anticipates.<br/> <br/>Spanning from the 1950s to the 1960s, the twenty stories in <i>Marcovaldo</i> are alternately comic and melancholy, farce and fantasy. Throughout, Calvino's unassuming masterpiece "conveys the sensuous, tangible qualities of life" (<i>New York Times</i>).<br/><br/><i>Translated from the Italian by William Weaver.</i><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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 more ingenuousness than skill-to lessen his burden and that of those around him. The results are never the anticipated ones.
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