Analysis of Calvino’s “Marco Valdo, or Seasons in the City”
The short stories included in Italo Calvino’s “Marcovaldo, or the Seasons in the City” (1963) are set at the timeof the so-called Italian economic boom (1955-1963 ca.).The protagonist, a blue collar worker embedded in a society marked by mass-production and widespreadconsumerism, is constantly in search of a ‘lost paradise’ of nature, which appears to be […]