Easy Readers - Italian: Marcovaldo - Softcover

Calvino

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3125657601 ISBN 13: 9783125657601

Publisher: Klett (Ernst) Verlag,Stuttgart, 1987

Synopsis

84pp , About the author :: Italo Calvino ( Santiago de Las Vegas , Province of Havana, Cuba , October 15, 1923 - Siena , Italy, September 19, 1985 ) was one of the most important Italian writers of the twentieth century ... in the sixties , Calvin to a new way of making literature , understood and as artifice, and as a combinatorial game points . In his view , we must make visible the structure of the narrative for the reader and increase their complicity . It is at this time when Calvin approaches a kind of writing that could be defined as combinatorial because the same mechanism that allows writing assumes a central role within the work. Calvin, in fact, was convinced that the linguistic universe has supplanted reality and sees the novel as a mechanism playing with combinations of words. Although this aspect can be considered the closest to the neo - avant-garde, Calvin away from it as much for its style as its language, extremely compressible both ... This new conception of Calvin is the result of many influences : structuralism and semiotics , the lessons taught by Roland Barthes on combinatorial ars , the approach to Raymond Queneau Oulipo , the labyrinthine script Jorge Luis Borges , besides the rereading of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne who define as the father of all the avant-garde novels of our century ... Crystallization of this new conception of literature will Il Castello dei destini incrociati (1969 ) that was added in 1973 La Taverna dei destini incrociati and where the narrative journey is entrusted to the combination of tarot cards . A group of travelers are in a castle. Each will have an adventure that count but can not because they have lost their voice. To communicate, therefore, used tarot cards and so reconstructed thanks to the letters, the events that have happened to them. In this book , Calvin uses the tarot cards as a system of signs , as a genuine own language. Each printed figure depends on the context in which it is pronounced. Cal

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From the Inside Flap:

"In mezzo alla città di cemento e asfalto, Marcovaldo va in cerca della Natura. Ma esiste ancora, la Natura? Quella che egli trova è una Natura dispettosa, contraffatta, compromessa con la vita artificiale. Personaggio buffo e melanconico, Marcovaldo è il protagonista d'una serie di favole moderne, dove Italo Calvino va segnando, come in un suo block-notes segreto, avvenimenti impercettibili nella vita di una grande città industriale, quali possono essere il passaggio d'una nuvola carica di pioggia o l'arrivo mattutino d'uno sbuffo di vento. Quando le avventure di Marcovaldo hanno raggiunto un bel numero, seguendo come un colorato calendario l'alternarsi delle stagioni, Calvino le ha disposte in un libro. Partite come divagazioni comico-poetiche sul tema - 'neorealistico' per eccellenza - della più elementare lotta per la vita, le venti favole di Marcovaldo arrivano alla rappresentazione della più complicata realtà d'oggi, alla satira del 'miracolo economico' e della 'civiltà del consumo'; ma sempre restano fedeli a una classica struttura narrativa: quella delle storielle a vignette dei giornalini per l'infanzia. Marcovaldo non è altro che un Fortunello contemporaneo, un Bonaventura all'incontrario, un Pampurio dei caseggiati popolari". (Italo Calvino)

About this edition

• Publisher: Klett (Ernst) Verlag,Stuttgart
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 3125657601
• ISBN 13: 9783125657601
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1