Word: marcovaldo
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...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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