by Italo Calvino · 10 X 18 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264034762
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«Marcovaldo» is Italo Calvino's book of short stories, published by 10/18 in paperback (185 pages, in French).
Marcovaldo is a dreamy labourer, with a wife and six children, in a large city in northern Italy. Between asphalt and concrete, he seeks the nature he remembers: he picks mushrooms at a tram stop, takes a strange sand bath and, thanks to a cat, meets an eccentric marchioness. Calvino's irony turns every attempt into a comic adventure.
Work originally published as «Marcovaldo, ovvero le stagioni in città» in 1963. This French edition belongs to the «Domaine étranger» collection from 10/18.
For readers of Italian classics and short fiction with humour: each episode is a self-contained story with Calvino's ironic stamp.
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
