Marcovaldo

I don't know what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting this: a story where anything can happen to anybody at any time. It's a story with a contemporary feel, a story of modern excess, a story of angst, story of fear of consequences. Our main character is the same in every story, but he could be any poor working man in a modern city, blamed for things that occur outside of his control, suffering for the things he does which are not really any different from anyone else, living a small desperate life in a heartless world. It sounds sad but it isn't; it strikes me as some sort of a comedic tragedy. And somehow someone thinks it's a story for children.