Dino Buzzati, Author, Marina Harss, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Marina Harss. New York Review Books $14.95 (218p) ISBN 978-1-59017-323-7
Italian artist and author Dino Buzzati imagines a modern graphic novel version of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. In Buzzati's version, set in Milan, a singer called Orfi mourns his lover, Eura, and tracks her to the afterlife. Through a...
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Dino Buzzati, Author, Dino Buzzati, Illustrator New York Review of Books $18.95 (152p) ISBN 978-1-59017-076-2
Dino Buzzati's tale The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily completes the fall releases for the Children's Collection. The story, which also contains sections of poetry, details Leander, King of the Bears, and his subjects' forgotten ursine...
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Dino Buzzati, trans. from the Italian by Judith Landry. Ecco, $16.99 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-274273-5
The 20 riveting stories in Buzzati’s collection feature characters caught up mostly in the cruel twists of Kafkaesque fate. In the title tale, the narrator, aboard a traveling train, passes through towns full of people visibly alarmed at some horror
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Dino Buzzati, trans. from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti. NYRB Classics, $17.95 trade paper (216p) ISBN 978-1-68137-714-8
Buzzati’s most well-known novel, The Tartar Steppe (1945), receives a fine new translation with an improved title from Venuti. Giovanni Drogo, a lieutenant in the Italian army, is given his first assignment at the remote Fortezza Bastiani, nestled...
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Dino Buzzati, trans. from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti. New York Review Books, $19.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-68137-867-1
These captivating stories selected by Venuti and written over a 50-year-period by Buzzati (1906–1972) exhibit the author’s interest in fantasy, futility, and fate. In “Seven Floors,” a mildly ill patient checks into the top floor of a clinic, only...
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