Dino Buzzati

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Een Italiaanse soldaat begint zijn militaire dienst in een garnizoen in een hoog fort dat uitkijkt op een woestijn, in de verwachting gauw elders carrière te zullen maken.

Il deserto dei Tartari

Il protagonista di 'Un amore' ha atteso troppo, senza saperlo - è rimasto nell'intimo un giovane, crede che il sentimento sia ancora capace di tutti i miracoli. Mentre lei, giovanissima d'anni, ha assorbito invece la cinica spregiudicatezza, la stanchezza morale di un'epoca. L'amore dell'uomo, un vero amore, è destinato così a smarrirsi nella menzogna, come in un labirinto. Ma anche dai meandri di questo amore assurdo si leva, limpido, il canto di Buzzati. La sua Milano è il ritratto della metropoli, e insieme il simbolo della babele d'ogni tempo, con i suoi inferni vecchi e nuovi, i suoi falansteri giganteschi, certe sue piazzette, certi suoi grovigli di vicoli, certi angoli segreti.

Un amore

Il mondo magico e inquietante di Dino Buzzati (1906-72). Trentuno racconti surreali, imprevedibili e misteriosi scelti dallo stesso autore per questo volume.

La boutique del mistero

Abitato da un popolo di 'geni', custodi degli alberi, Bosco Vecchio è un mito, la foresta sacra dove affondano le loro radici l'infanzia dello scrittore e quella dell'umanità.

Il segreto del Bosco Vecchio

Frances Lobb

Lemony Snicket

In search of food, Leander, King of the Bears, leads his subjects from their safe caves in the mountains of Sicily to the valley where they triumph over many enemies. Reprint.

The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily

Sessanta racconti

In Catastrophe, the renowned Italian short story writer Dino Buzzati brings vividly to life the slow and quietly terrifying collapse of our known, everyday world. In stories touched by the fantastical and the strange, and filled with humor, irony, and menace, Buzzati illuminates the nightmarish side of our ordinary existence. From “The Epidemic,” which traces the gradual effects of a “state influenza” that targets those who disagree with the government, to “The Collapse of Baliverna,” where a man puzzles over whether a misstep on his part caused the collapse of a building, to “Seven Floors,” which imagines a sanatorium where patients are housed on each floor according to the gravity of their illness and brilliantly highlights the ominous machinations of bureaucracy, Buzzati’s surreal, unsettling tales reckon with the struggle that lies beneath everyday interactions, the sometimes perverse workings of human emotions and desires, and, with wit and pathos, describe the small steps we take as individuals and as a society in our march toward catastrophe. With hints of Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, Catastrophe, published for the first time in the United States, feels as timely today as ever.

And Other Stories

Catastrophe

Poem strip

Yasli Ormanin Gizemi

Tanrı'yı Gören Köpek

Il grande ritratto

Anne Milano Appel

Singularity

A glory-starved soldier spends his life awaiting an absent, long-expected enemy in this influential Italian classic of existentialism, now newly translated and with its originally intended title restored. At the start of Dino Buzzati's The Stronghold, newly commissioned officer Giovanni Drogo has just received his first posting: to the remote Fortezza Bastiani. North of this stronghold are impassible mountains; to the south, a great desert; and somewhere out there is the enemy, whose attack is imminent. This is the enemy that Lieutenant Drogo has been sent to draw out of his lair. This is the enemy over which Drogo is confident he and his fellows will score a definitive defeat, sending them home as heroes. And yet time passes and where is the enemy? As the soldiers in the fortress await the foretold day of reckoning, they succumb to inertia, and though deaths occurs, it is not from bravery. Decades pass. A lifetime passes. Drogo, however, still has his lonely vigil to keep. Buzzati is one of the great Italian writers of the twentieth century, renowned for a touch that is as lyrical as it is light, as well as for his fantastical imagination. The Stronghold, previously translated as The Tartar Steppe, is his most celebrated work, a book that has been read as a veiled attack on Mussolini's fascist militarism, a prophetic allegory of the Cold War, and as an existentialist fable. Lawrence Venuti's new translation reverts to the title that Buzzati originally intended to give his book, and seeks to bring out the human and the historical dimensions of a story of proven power and poignance.

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