Transcript Italo Calvino Marcovaldo

Italo Calvino
Marcovaldo
Title: Marcovaldo
Author: Italo Calvino
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Pages: 121
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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.
Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Insightful reviews
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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..."
Dhanaraj Rajan: Another wonderful literary experience with Italo Calvino. Calvino seems to be a
person who is incapable of disappointing me. On the other hand he seems to be making his
hold on me firmer and I am more than willing to comply.
About the book: It is a collection of 20 short stories and the main character in all the short
stories is a peasant-turned-city labourer named Marcovaldo. The stories are biting satires on the
insensitive and greedy urbanization process and the incurable sickness of consumerism
identified with urban set up. The stories are very simple and the events of ordinary city life are
the situations for the setting - eg: a walk in the super market; lunch break in the office;
senseless invading of the privacy by the sales representatives; etc. As one reads the story one
is entertained (there are many funny events)and at the same time tossed into few critical
reflections. In short, it is a story of how the ordinary folks cope with the fast 'development'.
A Sample: "At six in the evening the city fell into the hands of the consumers. All during the day
the big occupation of the productive public was to produce: they produced consumer goods. At
a certain hour, as if a switch had been thrown, they stopped production and, away!, they were
all off, to consume.."
A terrific satire but said in a funny way. Do not miss the stories.
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Algernon: Calvino has been on my radar for a protracted time, and that i imagine I made a
sensible choice in deciding on Marcovaldo for a primary try. it is a small book, however it has a
tremendous heart. The tales are set within the poverty ridden early 1950's and persist with as
much as the relative abundance of the 1960's, the fast connections that come to mind are the
grand masters of Italian neo-realism: de Sica within the Bycicle Thiefs, Fellini in Amarcord and
Roma, Visconti in Rocco and his Brothers or White Nights. Going extra afield, related
explorations of the of the fewer fortunates individuals of society, i may point out Truffaut or
Kurosawa in his glossy films. What they percentage with Italo Calvino is the poetry angle,
"diamonds within the rust" and all that jazz, the wish that springs everlasting if you are down and
the one approach is up. If we take the quote by way of Thoreau approximately "the mass of
guys that dwell lives of quiet desperation and visit the grave with the track nonetheless in them"
, it turns into transparent that Calvino has taken this making a song accountability upon his
shoulders, as he follows his Marcovaldo in his usual goals of bettering his existence through
outsmarting the method and in his obdurate perseverence to maintain making an attempt
regardless of numerous defeats. The e-book may be classed as comedy, the type that made
Chaplin well-known for purchasing us to snort and cry even as on the tragic clown who walks
into the sundown together with his too short, patched pants and his outsized shoes. Subtitled
Seasons within the City, this choice of 20 brief tales is tied jointly via the protagonists and the
setting: Marcovaldo is a handyman (unskilled worker) in an enormous city, stressed through low
pay, a querulous spouse and 6 children. His history isn't explicitly given, yet he should have
been born someplace within the state and transplanted to the concrete jungle of huge city,
witness his everlasting fascination with nature: This Marcovaldo possessed an eye fixed illsuited to urban life: billboards, traffic-lights, shop-windows, neon signs, posters, irrespective of
how rigorously devised to trap the attention, by no means arrested his gaze, which would were
operating over the wilderness sands. Instead, he could by no means leave out a leaf yellowing
on a branch, a feather trapped by way of a rood tile; there has been no horsefly on a horse's
back, no worm-hole in a plank, or fig-peel squashed at the disewalk that Marcovaldo did not
comment and contemplate over, getting to know the adjustments of season, the yearnings of his
heart, and the woes of his existence. the 1st tale units the tone and the structure for the entire
rest: the alienation of dwelling within the giant city, the poverty, the surprising glimpse of a
chance for development (in this example a row of mushrooms showing within the gutters of a
tramway station), the passion and the impulsive motion ( To Marcovaldo the grey and wretched
international surrounding him appeared all of sudden beneficiant with hidden riches; anything
may well nonetheless be anticipated of life, past the hourly salary of his stipulated salary, with
inflation index, family members provide and cost-of-living allowance.), by means of the Irony of
destiny while his plans are overwhelmed by means of the steamroller of Reality. From at no cost
mushrooms, to a quiet evening drowsing on a park bench, trapping birds on rooftops or stealing
rabbits from a hospital, bee venom or sand baths remedies for arthritic pains, tours looking for
fresh air or fresh fish - every little thing terrible Marcovaldo plans has a tendency to show to dirt
in his hands. His young ones are usually not excluded from the kin curse, I in particular
cherished the only tale while his older boy runs from domestic to spend a summer time within
the mountains with a herd of cattle. For all his poverty and undesirable luck, Marcovaldo isn't a
revolutionary, he does not plan to overturn the social order and he does not rant in regards to
the common injustice of life. as a rule he's unhappy and tired, his goals usually trivial and his
moments of happiness affordable and fleeting. this is an example: he's sitted on a bench by
means of an avenue, close to where the place he works; seeing that his home is distant and to
head there at midday expenditures time and tram tickets, he brings his lunch within the box,
acquired for the purpose, and he eats within the open air, gazing the folk cross by, after which
refreshes himself at a consuming fountain. If it truly is autumn and the solar is out, he chooses
locations the place an occasional ray strikes; the glossy purple leaves that fall from the bushes
serve him as napkins; the salami skins visit stray dogs, who're speedy to develop into his
friends; and the sparrows gather the bread crumbs, at a second whilst nobody goes prior within
the avenue.As he eats, he thinks: "Why am I so satisfied to flavor the flavour of my wife's
cooking here, whilst at home, one of the quarells and tears, the accounts that crop up in each
conversation, i cannot take pleasure in it?" i discovered it effortless to spot with the most
character, not just simply because i am an important fan of the Italian institution of cinema: I
grew up in a huge business town, being silly building websites and unfinished appartment
blocks, yearning a eco-friendly park or a vacation via the seaside, frozen in wintry weather and
stifling sizzling in summer: In each human presence Marcovaldo well-known unfortunately a
brother, caught like him, even in holiday time, to that oven of cooked and dusty cement, via
debts, via the weight of the family, via the meagerness of his wages. . Like him, I sought shelter
from fact within the magic of the silver monitor : For someone who dislikes his domestic and
reveals it inhospitable, the favourite shelter on chilly evenings is the movies. . Calvino inserts in
a single of his tales a homage to 1 of the main well-known cuts from los angeles Dolce Vita ,
making Marcovaldo carry the lighting for the filming of a scene with a diva splashing in a
fountain at night.As summer season follows spring and wintry weather follows autumn and
Italian economic system slowly gathers steam, Marcovaldo strikes from a basement room to a
rooftop one, acquires a motorbike and starts off going to the films or to the supermarkets. The
tone of the tales alterations slightly, to a extra overt condemnation of consummerism, urban
alienation and inequality: billboard symptoms that disguise the celebs and maintain the relations
from sleeping, supermarkets jam-packed with items they cannot have the funds for and but
could not support coveting, Christmas vacations advertised to death, loose samples of shady
items that they do not fairly need, luxurious eating places with constrained access, and so on.
yet via a lot of these tales of woe and sadness, Calvino manages to discover a glimpse of
beauty, a lyrical touch, an outstanding notice or a sort gesture. His improvement as a author
used to be additionally glaring as I improved via those seasons within the city, beginning with
stark, stylish neo-realism and later flirting with magical realism, supra-realism, city fables and
some ultimate paragraphs which are an allegorical poem of the struggle among mild and
darkness, lifestyles and death. easily beautiful.I wager i will need to learn now my different
books by means of him which are ready on my cabinets : Cosmicomiche and If On a wintry
weather evening a Traveller.
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