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Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City (English and Italian Edition) by Calvino, Italo is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City (English and Italian Edition) about?

A charming portrait of one man's dreams and schemes, by “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (The Guardian). 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. 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. Spanning from the 1950s to the 1960s, the twenty stories in Marcovaldo are alternately comic and melancholy, farce and fantasy. Throughout, Calvino's unassuming masterpiece “conveys the sensuous, tangible qualities of life” (The New York Times).

Who reads Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City (English and Italian Edition)?

Author

Calvino, Italo

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780151570812

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.87 / 5 (4,532 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14