Marcovaldo

Informationen zum Autor Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities , If on a Winter's Night a Traveller , Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar . In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris , was published in 2003. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Italo Calvino
• Assisted by: William Weaver (Translation), Weaver William (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.03.2001
• EAN: 9780099428541
• ISBN: 978-0-09-942854-1
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 9 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Short Stories, Italy, Narrative theme: Interior life, c 1950 to c 1959, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / World Literature / Italy