Transcript Italo Calvino Marcovaldo

Italo Calvino
Marcovaldo
Title: Marcovaldo
Author: Italo Calvino
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ISBN: 3125657601
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Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible
dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss,
and his neighbors, he chases his dreams-but the results are never the expected ones.
Insightful reviews
Patty: Ci sono libri che van bene a 10 anni così come a 40. Marcovaldo è uno di questi.
Leggerlo è stato come scorrere le immagini di tavolette di fumetti, quelle di tanti anni fa. Anche i
nomi dei personaggi delle 20 novelle sembrano appartenere ai fumetti di un tempo lontano: la
moglie Domitilla, il vigile Tornaquinci, il capo-magazziniere Viligelmo, il dottor Godifredo... una
galleria di personaggi buffi e reali, a metà strada tra il mondo reale e quello fantastico. Fiaba e
realtà si intrecciano sapientemente nella scrittura leggera e veloce di un grande maestro qual è
Calvino. Ogni novella inizia con buffo disincanto, come una favola per bambini, per finire poi con
un melanconico umorismo che fa riflettere.
C'è tutta la vita in Marcovaldo: la povertà di un manovale che non riesce a sfamare la sua
numerosa famiglia, il delirio del "divertimento" di massa, la corsa ipnotica al consumismo,
l'incapacità di adattarsi al nuovo mondo urbano ostinandosi a cercare la natura anche dove mai
potrebbe esserci, le prepotenze dei capi...
Vita, filosofia, temi importanti, ma trattati con una leggerezza e una competenza stilistica
raffinata ed elegante che fa di Calvino uno scrittore morale, mai moralista o ancora peggio
propagandista, proprio come afferma Alberto Asor Rosa: " Lo scrittore morale non si pone il
problema di dire qual è il bene e qual è il male.(...) Per me lo scrittore morale è quello che si
limita a suggerire dei comportamenti e ad additare una linea di condotta."
La prima pubblicazione di Marcovaldo risale alla vigilia del Natale del '63 con le bellissime
tenere illustrazioni di Sergio Tofano, celebre illustratore de "Il Corriere dei Piccoli", anche se
parte dei racconti erano già usciti con L'Unità.
Nel '72 a dei ragazzi di scuola media Calvino rispose così:
"Mi chiedete se Marcovaldo sono un po' io. Direi di sì, ma il fatto strano è che ho cominciato a
sentirmi simile a Marcovaldo dopo aver scritto il libro. Quando lo scrivevo credevo che fosse un
personaggio un po' buffo un po' triste ma molto diverso da me. Col passar degli anni invece..."
jeremy: while not as well known as if on a winter's night a traveler, invisible cities, or
cosmicomics, marcovaldo equally exemplifies the peerless brilliance of italo calvino's creativity.
the tale of marcovaldo, a hapless laborer living with his family in an italian city, unfolds over the
course of twenty short stories and is set cyclically within the inexorable rhythm of the passing
seasons. marcovaldo's insatiable imagination and affinity for the simple intrigue of everyday
existence proves to be more a bane than boon not only in his daily meanderings, but, too, in the
lives of all those he comes in contact with. told with charming sincerity, compassionate humor,
and quiet beauty, calvino deftly employs his gift as storyteller to both delight the reader and
delineate some of the oft-overlooked elements of modern urban living: nature, pollution,
hardship, semblance, distraction, relationship, and simplicity.
Antonis: Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo is a collection of 20 short stories, loosely connected with
each other in chronological order but not really in causality. There's one story for each season
of a year for a span of 5 years. Marcovaldo is a poor worker and a father, living and working in a
random city probably somewhere in Italy. But as with all Calvino's works, this city is every city
and it's our city as well, with streets and shops and houses that we know very well. His
neighbours are our own neighbours and they can be found everywhere. And his problems just
so happen to be our problems that maybe we once had or will probably have... And that is
exactly the magic with Marcovaldo, as Calvino practices his almost supernatural ability to makes
us think like him and feel like him and get into his head and see through his eyes. So while we
know that it's probably a pretty stupid idea to go outside and sleep on a specific park bench we
still do it, just like Marcovaldo. We know we can't actually see a plant grow in the rain... but we
would try it, just like Marcovaldo. It is those contrasts between the realities of Marcovaldo's life
and the drab consumer-society around him, that might perhaps manage to jar us just enough to
start viewing life from a different perspective.
As with every other Calvino work that I've had the pleasure to experience, Marcovaldo is very
easy to read, with language that flows smoothly and untroubled, beautiful descriptions drawing
pictures of not so distant memories and natural dialogue among his characters that can either
witty, tense or relaxed depending on the circumstances and always realistic. The stories at the
earlier part of the book felt a bit lighter in subject while towards the end they acquired a slightly
deeper and more serious tone but that could just as well be a subjective change of perception.
Some of them will resonate incredibly well with some readers but it is just as easy to love all of
them.
In all, this is a very easy to read book, worthy of its praise and definitely one that I can
recommend to anybody.
John: here is a booklet I knew i need the minute I held it in my scorching little hands. For one
thing, it really is brief - a hundred and twenty pages, quite huge print. For another, it is
symmetrical - 20 stories, five for every season of the year. And finally, having learn one tale
from it in a seasonal assortment already, I knew it used to be either magical and sarcastic, a mix
as golden as snide and summary are shit. (Ok, it may be argued magical and sarcastic and
snide and summary are po-tay-to and po-tah-to, yet let's now not cut up hairs here.)It took me 3
weeks to learn Marcovaldo, simply because nearly each tale made me are looking to return and
skim it again, now not since it was once challenging to appreciate yet simply because i wished
to event the analyzing of it again. this is often really a booklet to savor. many of the brief tales
(none are over 10 pages, so much clocking in lower than 5) are basically humorous in a refined
way, like "The Wasp Treatment" and "The Lunch-Box." Some, like "The wooded area at the
Superhighway" and "Smoke, Wind, and Soap-Bubbles," are caustic commentaries on
industrialized society. Others - "The solid Air" and "The flawed Stop" spring to mind - are
visceral, haunting trips of Marcovaldo, a guy who desires to see in the course of the churning
gears right into a flora and fauna that he is by no means visible other than in fancy, and his
family members right into a client tradition they do not comprehend yet cost dutifully into. a few
achieve nearly terrifying degrees of dementia, while the road among romantic idealism and cruel
fact blur with Marcovaldo and his already-jaded family members caught on the borderland - see
"A Saturday of Sun, Sand and Sleep" and "Marcovaldo on the Supermarket."And then there are
"The Moon and GNAC," "The Rain and the Leaves," and "Santas Children," the centerpieces of
the booklet which do all of those things. All 3 come towards the top of the book, after the tone,
setting, and characters were subtly placed into place. they've got a number of issues in
universal - all have a clash among the family and company culture, with an identical winner
every one time; they each one mirror an urbanization of myth, with neon lighting fixtures and
potted crops changing cosmos and beanstalks; and every offers a subtle, heartbreaking ethical
judgment at the society they're set in and the losses guy has swallowed achieve it.
Francesco Martini: "Oh, potessi dormire qui, solo in mezzo a questo fresco verde e non nella
mia stanza bassa e calda; qui nel silenzio, non nel russare e parlare nel sonno di tutta l. a.
famiglia e correre di tram giù nella strada; qui nel buio naturale della notte, non in quello
artificiale delle persiane chiuse, zebrato dal riverbero dei fanali; oh, potessi vedere foglie e ciclo
aprendo gli occhi!" L'idea di ritrovare il buon Calvino mi è venuta un po' così, di sfuggita. Mi
sono ricordato della Trilogia degli Antenati e, riflettendo alla luce di una nuova maturità sui
personaggi-metafora di quei libri ho pensato che sarebbe stato interessante provarne un altro
adesso, molto pace dopo, se non altro according to vedere se ne sarei rimasto altrettanto
affascinato.Devo dire che Marcovaldo è un libro un po' diverso. Le provocazioni di Calvino ci
sono anche qui, ma appaiono più velate, più agghindate rispetto a quanto non ricordassi.
Invece si concentra più sul tema della natura, della semplicità, che è stato quanto mi ha colpito
ed emozionato di questo strano romanzo. Il resto però, mi lascia un po' a bocca asciutta... L'ho
trovato in molti aspetti un po' semplice, un po' insipido, come se los angeles sua permanenza
nel novero dei semi-classici ne avesse un po' gonfiato los angeles portata.Diciamo così, vale los
angeles pena di leggerlo perché è un libro poco impegnativo, sia in termini di pace che di fatica.
consistent with il resto ammetto che i personaggi di Calvino li ricordassi... più interessanti.
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