Word: marcovaldo
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Thanks to the time warp of translation, not all new books by Italo Calvino that appear in English are actually new. Both Marcovaldo (1983) and Difficult Loves (1984) offered short stories that the Italian author wrote more than two decades ago, when his talents were entertainingly restricted to earthly realities. Mr. Palomar, on the other hand, belongs to the later vintage of Calvino's fiction. Like such works as Cosmicomics (1968) and Invisible Cities (1974), this novel uses the recognizable world primarily as an excuse for the launching of antic metaphysics...
...translated and published in the U.S. in 1980, Calvino's exquisitely simple retellings of traditional material won richly deserved praise. Somewhat lost in the acclaim was the fact that the book, so different from the author's fictional experimentations, had been issued in Italy in 1956. Similarly, Marcovaldo (1983) offered a series of short stories in time-lapse translation. Calvino had not, appearances to the contrary, suddenly reverted to the methods of postwar neorealism; these were simply works that he had written after...
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