who has an affinity with nature and a distaste for city life. The central character of Marcovaldo is an unskilled labourer for the company Sbav and Co. The Marcovaldo series depicts the life of a poor rural man with his family living in a big industrial city in northern Italy. In September 1983, an English translation of the book by William Weaver was published by Secker & Warburg. The last stories date from the mid-60s, when the illusion of an economic boom flourished". An Author's note explains that: "The first in the series were written in the early 1950s and thus are set in a very poor Italy. The book is made up of a collection of twenty stories, of which the first takes place in the spring, the second in summer, the third in the autumn and the fourth in the winter and so on, so that together they represent the yearly seasonal cycle five times. The first stories were written in the early 1950s. It was initially published, in 1963, as Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in città ( Marcovaldo, or The Seasons in the City). Marcovaldo is a collection of 20 short stories written by Italo Calvino.
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