The Tartar Steppe - Softcover

Buzzati, Dino

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879239921 ISBN 13: 9780879239923

Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1995

Synopsis

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others' wait for a foreign invasion that never happens. Over time the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade―until the day the enemy begins massing on the desolate steppe...

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About the Author

DINO BUZZATI (1906-1972) was an Italian editor, novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer. He has been lauded as one of Europe's foremost experimental writers of the twentieth century. Canongate published his seminal work The Tartar Steppe in April 2007.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

Edition details

• Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879239921
• ISBN 13: 9780879239923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198