Marcovaldo
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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Marcovaldo
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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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788499309965
Publisher: labutxaca
Publication date: 03/22/2016
Series: LABUTXACA
Sold by: Planeta
Format: eBook
Pages: 132
File size: 682 KB
Language: Catalan

About the Author

Italo Calvino (Santiago de las Vegas, l'Havana, 1923 - Siena,1985) és un clàssic contemporani italià fonamental. La seva àmplia obra narrativa comença al fi nal dels anys quaranta amb novel·les que participen del corrent neorealista. El 1958 publica amb el títol d'I racconti un conjunt de relats que posteriorment, el 1970, amplia i rebateja com Els amors difícils. Més tard, evoluciona cap a una literatura de filiació fantàstica impregnada d'un peculiar humor per mitjà de la trilogia Els nostres avantpassats, que conformen El vescomte migpartit (1952), El baró rampant (1957), El cavaller inexistent (1959) i Les cosmicòmiques (1965). Entre la seva diversa producció posterior, sobresurten Les ciutats invisibles (1972) i Si una nit d'hivern un viatger (1979). Edicions 62 ha publicat la versió catalana de gran part de l'obra de l'autor.
Italo Calvino (Santiago de las Vegas, l’Havana, 1923 - Siena,1985) és un clàssic contemporani italià fonamental. La seva àmplia obra narrativa comença al fi nal dels anys quaranta amb novel·les que participen del corrent neorealista. El 1958 publica amb el títol d’I racconti un conjunt de relats que posteriorment, el 1970, amplia i rebateja com Els amors difícils. Més tard, evoluciona cap a una literatura de filiació fantàstica impregnada d’un peculiar humor per mitjà de la trilogia Els nostres avantpassats, que conformen El vescomte migpartit (1952), El baró rampant (1957), El cavaller inexistent (1959) i Les cosmicòmiques (1965). Entre la seva diversa producció posterior, sobresurten Les ciutats invisibles (1972) i Si una nit d’hivern un viatger (1979). Edicions 62 ha publicat la versió catalana de gran part de l’obra de l’autor.

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Gore Vidal

During the last quarter century Italo Calvino has advanced far beyond his American and English contemporaries. As they continue to look for the place where the spiders make their nest, Calvino has not only found that special place, but learned how himself to make that special web of prose to which all things adhere.

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