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    <body><![CDATA[Calvino's not always my guy, though The Baron in the Trees is a favorite. I read Marcovaldo last November (2008) in Italian and was entranced: with the title character's simplicity and goodness, the futility of existence as he lives it, and Calvino's fertile imagination and wonderfully economical, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44487455">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a whimsical collection of short stories about the well-intentioned, if hapless, Italian laborer Marcovaldo. The stories are organized around the four seasons, each strongly conveying the feel of its particular season, and also entertaining with the mishaps and tribulations of the dreamy, foo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48091045">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[my first italo calvino, and it was difficult. i'm sure there is a lot i missed, reading it in italian, but what i did get was awesome. such a great idea for a book of short stories (they're all about one character--marcovaldo--and his awkward attempts to connect with the natural world around him), a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9987868">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to like these stories about Marcovaldo, and I'm even sympathetic to Calvino's goal here, but these stories simply lacked edge and personality. They're pretty flat and passive. Sure, he's intended to be a fable-like character but, in the end, why exactly should that move a reader? Oh well.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[gave up on this a third of the way through. too cutesy for me. far from calvino's best. traded it in for kafka.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A cool little slice of magic realism.  Not deep but definitely worthwhile.  My love affair with Calvino continues... ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Marcovaldo is a true dreamer and survivor - a panacea for us in these troubled times]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can only imagine that Roberto Begnini took some inspiration from Marcovaldo...]]></body>
    
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