Tataröknen är en roman från 1940 av den italienske författaren Dino Buzzati. Den handlar om en officer som blir utposterad vid ett gammalt fort i en vidsträckt och öde gränstrakt. Till en början ser han uppdraget som en tillfällig anhalt, men åren går och officeren blir kvar på samma plats. Boken är präglad av ett …
La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia is an Italian children’s book written and illustrated by Dino Buzzati which was translated into English by Frances Lobb as The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily. The American hardcover edition was published by HarperCollins in 2003 and the paperback was published in 2005, also …
A Love Affair is a 1963 novel by the Italian writer Dino Buzzati. It tells the story of an architect in Milan who falls in love with a much younger ballerina. The novel has an unusually conventional narrative style compared to many of the author's other works. An English translation by Joseph Green was published in …
Sessanta racconti is a 1958 short story collection by the Italian writer Dino Buzzati. The first 36 stories had been published previously, while the rest were new. Subjects covered include the horror and surreality of life in a modern city, the existential aspects of advanced technology and metaphysical ideas. The …
A New York Review Books Original There’s a certain street—via Saterna—in the middle of Milan that just doesn’t show up on maps of the city. Orfi, a wildly successful young singer, lives there, and it’s there that one night he sees his gorgeous girlfriend Eura disappear, “like a spirit,” through a little door in the …