Marcovaldo: Or the Seasons in the City (Vintage Classics)

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.

Title: Marcovaldo: Or the Seasons in the City (Vintage Classics)

Author: Italo Calvino

ISBN: 9780099428541

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Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Publication Date: 2001-03-22

Number of Pages: 144

Weight: 0.1180 kg

Calvino is surely among the handful of living writers that can be called, without hesitation, great. Each book by Calvino is a completely original conception. Marcovaldo is one of the best works of fiction published * Spectator *
The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century * Guardian *
It is the refinement, the oddness and the humour of the thoughts he gets which make Calvino a rare pleasure to read; he is a match for Borges as he stealthily patrols the limits of the unthinkable -- John Sturrock * New Review *
He will continue to glitter, this strange, lonely prospector in the universe of words, well into the next millennium and after, a master in the empire of the imagination * Independent *