by Italo Calvino · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804370567
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«Marcovaldo» is a collection of short stories by Italo Calvino, published by Mondadori in paperback (134 pages, in Italian).
Marcovaldo, an unskilled worker in an Italian industrial city, seeks nature amid concrete and asphalt. The book's brief vignettes combine humor, irony, and melancholy to show his attempts to find beauty and meaning in an urban environment that alienates him.
The work was first published in 1963 and is part of the Oscar opere di Italo Calvino collection.
Aimed at the general public interested in Italian fiction and short stories.
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).
