num_pages: 121
description: "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. As always with Calvino, nothing is quite as it seems.
language: English
title: Marcovaldo : Or the Seasons in the City
titlecomplete: Marcovaldo : Or the Seasons in the City
genres: Italian Literature, Classics, Italy, Short Stories, Novels, School, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 13210
places: Italy
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of R