Marcovaldo

Italo Calvino

Alessandro Sanna (Illustrations)

"Bending to tie his shoes, he took a better look: they ere mushrooms, real mushrooms, sprouting right in the heart of the city! To Marcovaldo the gray and wretched world surrounding him seemed suddenly generous with hidden riches; something could still be expected of life, beyond the hourly wage of gis stipulated salary, with inflation index, family grant, and cost-of-living allowance.

Written in 1963, Marcovaldo, or the Seasons in the City, is a series of modern fables of notable clarity whose protagonist, a melancholy workman, comes to life through the ilustrations by the renowned Italian artist Alessandro Sanna.

"In the midst of a city of cement and asphalt, Marcovaldo goes in sear of Nature. But, does Nature still exist? What he finds is a Nature that is disdainful, malformed, committed to artificial life. A book for children? For youth? For adults? Or rather a book in which the author expresses his how relationship, perplexed and arrogant, with the world?"

Italo Calvino

165 x 240 mm; 192 pgs. Hardback with jacket.