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    Marcovaldo: o sea las estaciones en la ciudad

    By Italo Calvino

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    "Marcovaldo se compone de veinte relatos. Cada relato se dedica a una estación; el ciclo de las cuatro estaciones se repite por tanto cinco veces en el libro. Todos los relatos tienen el mismo protagonista, Marcovaldo, y presentan más o menos un esquema idéntico. El texto de presentación dice: ;En medio de la ciudad de cemento y asfalto, Marcovaldo va en busca de la Naturaleza. Pero ¿existe todavía la Naturaleza? La que él encuentra es una Naturaleza desdeñosa, contrahecha, comprometida con la vida artificial. Personaje bufo y melancólico, Marcovaldo es el protagonista de una serie de fábulas modernas;, es la última encarnación de una serie de cándidos héroes pobrediablos a lo Charlot, con una particularidad: la de ser un Hombre de la Naturaleza, un Buen Salvaje exiliado en la ciudad industrial.¿Libro para niños? ¿Libro para jóvenes? ¿Libro para mayores? ¿O más bien un libro en el que el autor expresa su propia relación, perpleja y arrogante, con el mundo? Italo Calvino.
    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherSiruela
    Release dateSep 28, 2012
    ISBN9788498419917
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    Marcovaldo: o sea las estaciones en la ciudad
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    Italo Calvino

    Italo Calvino (1923–1985) was born in Cuba and grew up in San Remo, Italy. He began as an essayist and a journalist but is best known for his fiction, including Invisible Cities, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Marcovaldo, and Mr. Palomar.

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    • 5/5
      Like Borges, Calvino's metier was the short form - short stories and novellas. Even his "novels" - 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveller', 'The Castle of Crossed Destinies' 'Invisible Cities' - are short story collections underneath the skin. This is no exception. It falls into that category of collected tales relating incidents from the daily lives of their central character - 'Mr Palomar', 'Cosmicomics', arguably - that are at once mundane and fantastic.

      Marcovaldo is from peasant stock, transplanted to the industrial city - I'm guessing Turin - there to live in poverty with his young family in half-basements and garrets and to work in a packing factory. And herein lies the tension, as the country boy chases after those echoes of his former life to be found in the metropolis. There are no weak tales among the twenty collected here but I had favourites, inevitably. Like many of these tales, 'A Journey with the Cows' is a mini-picaresque with a powerful moral. 'The Wrong Stop' follows a similar path, featuring a heartbreaking and beautiful opening paragraph and a fantastical ending. They're tales of the unexpected in which the unexpected turns out to be not macabre but comic and surreal.

      Starting with 1952's 'The Cloven Count' and ending with 1983's 'Mr Palomar', I can't think of a more outstanding body of work in modern literature. The human insights, the humour, the sumptuous descriptions, the stylistic innovations and enormous imaginative power - Calvino's oeuvre is genuinely inspirational to both the adventurous reader and the writer.
    • 3/5
      This is a rather intriguing work, but I fear much is lost in translation. Touches of mid-century Italian comedy are evident, but I daresay there is more than meets the eye. A better knowledge of mid-century Italy would be useful to better understand the subtle messages of urbanisation and the peasant mind. Calvino was rather prolific so with a little research and some more reading, I hope to glean the deeper purpose of this author.
    • 4/5
      I think these whimsical vignettes about the poor but ever-hopeful Marcovaldo are best read, as I did, one at a time over a long period. Like occasionally meeting an old friend on the street and catching up. A nice bedside book.
    • 4/5
      Charming. As a city dweller myself, I found much to identify with in Marcovaldo's often fruitless quest to surround himself with natural beauty in a major metropolitan landscape. His unabashed, almost worshipful pursuit of any glimpse of green is a reminder to appreciate the little swatches of nature that I so often take for granted. Funny and comfortable, this small selection of stories is a delightful reminder to keep one's eyes open and one's heart full of love and adventure.
    • 3/5
      Wat een heerlijk, complexloos boekje. Twintig verhaaltjes rond de wat na?eve, romantisch-dromerige Marcovaldo, die in een niet nader bepaalde Noorditaliaanse stad leeft en vooral oog heeft voor de natuur. Het lijkt wel een kinderboek, met een sterke tragi-komische inslag, maar er zit ook een stevig sociaal verhaal in, vooral door de armoede waarin Marcovaldo en zijn gezin leven. Uiteraard komt de ecologische inslag erg modern over.
    • 3/5
      Wat een heerlijk, complexloos boekje. Twintig verhaaltjes rond de wat naïeve, romantisch-dromerige Marcovaldo, die in een niet nader bepaalde Noorditaliaanse stad leeft en vooral oog heeft voor de natuur. Het lijkt wel een kinderboek, met een sterke tragi-komische inslag, maar er zit ook een stevig sociaal verhaal in, vooral door de armoede waarin Marcovaldo en zijn gezin leven. Uiteraard komt de ecologische inslag erg modern over.
    • 5/5
      One of the most uplifting, beautiful, inspirational books I've found. The writing is splendid and makes event he most simple things in the world new and beautiful. This is the book I turn to when the snows of winter seem to be suffocating me or the summer sun is draining all my energy. It simply makes me appreciate life the way everyone should. PLEASE READ IT!!
    • 4/5
      On the edge of the sidewalk at a certain point there was a considerable heap of snow. Marcovaldo was about to level it to the height of his little walls when he realized that it was an automobile: the de luxe car of Commendatore Alboino, chairman of the board, all covered with snow. Since the difference between an automobile and a pile of snow was so slight, Marcovaldo began creating the form of an automobile with his shovel. It came out well: you really couldn't tell which of the two was real. To put the final touches on his work Marcovaldo used some rubbish that had turned up in his shovel: a rusted tin served to model the shape of a headlight; an old tap gave the door its handle.A great bowing and scraping of doormen, attendants and flunkies, and the chairman Commendatore Alboino came out of the main entrance. Short-sighted and efficient, he strode straight out to his car, grasped the protruding tap, pulled it down, bowed his head, and stepped into the pile of snow up to his neck.Marcovaldo is a displaced peasant, living and working in the city but homesick for the countryside. As he walks the grim streets on his way to work, he keeps his eyes open for glimpses of the natural world he loves so much. These are amusing and stories with surreal touches, but they usually end sadly for Marcovaldo.
    • 5/5
      In that the book revolves around one character, and contains both the humorous and profound in varying measures, it is like another book by Calvino, Mr Palomar, but with the difference being that the two characters have vastly different personalities. Marcovaldo, or Seasons in the City, is a sequence of 20 short stories based around the main character Marcovaldo. They are each set in a specific season, with each of the four seasons being represented five times. Marcovaldo, despite living in the city, identifies far more with the natural and seems to find urban life oppressive. He is quite a sensitive character, and his misadventures during the course of the book often revolve around either the kindness of his nature or his appreciation for the simple pleasures and beauties in life. Part of what makes the stories so enjoyable is that it is easy to identify with the thoughts of the character, and even when he does silly things and gets into trouble, his actions are brought about by good or innocent intentions. This is probably one of the better collections of Calvino's short stories, and would serve just as well to a first time Calvino reader as a more familiar one.
    • 5/5
      I am a big Calvino fan, but of all his books Marcovaldo is the one I pick up on the days when the world does not seem to be a particularly nice place. The tribulations of this wonderful character, a dreamer of infinite gentleness and humanity, will warm even the crustiest of hearts.