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“dino buzzati”

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  • The Singularity

    by Dino Buzzati ...
    Translated by Anne Milano Appel ...
    In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century Italian literature, a modest university professor becomes involved in a remote and enigmatic project in the middle of the Cold War.At the beginning of Dino Buzzati’s The Singularity, Ermanno Ismani, an unassuming university professor, is summoned by the minister of defense to accept a two-year, top ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Stronghold

    by Dino Buzzati ...
    Translated by Lawrence Venuti ...
    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: the remote Fortezza Bastiani. North of this stronghold are impassable ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Catastrophe

    And Other Stories

    by Dino Buzzati, Kevin Brockmeier ...
    "Weird [and] wonderful" stories by a Strega Prize winner with "shades of Fellini, shades of Dickens, shades of the great Italian horror director Mario Bava" ( Los Angeles Times).From "The Epidemic," which traces the gradual effects of a "state influenza" that targets those who disagree with the government, to "The Collapse of the Baliverna," in which a man puzzles over whether a misstep on his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bewitched Bourgeois

    Fifty Stories

    by Dino Buzzati ...
    Translated by Lawrence Venuti ...
    Poe and Kafka meet The Twilight Zone in this anthology of fifty fantastical tales, many of them reflecting the political and social energies of the time, by an Italian master of the short story.Dino Buzzati was a prolific writer of stories, publishing several hundred over the course of forty years. Many of them are fantastic—reminiscent of Kafka and Poe in their mixture of horror and absurdity, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily

    by Dino Buzzati ...
    Starving after a harsh winter, the bears descend from the mountains in search of food and invade the valley below, where they face fierce opposition from the army of the Grand Duke of Sicily. After many battles, scrapes and dangers, the bears' reign is established over the land, but their victory comes at a price. This edition contains A Reader's Companion by Lemony Snicket, including fan ... Read more

    $7.89 USD

  • A Love Affair

    by Dino Buzzati ...
    Translated by Joseph Green ...
    Accomplished in his career but unaccomplished in love, a middle-aged architect is torn apart by his obsession with an enigmatic young woman in this delicately told story of desire and abjection by a titan of Italian literature.Antonio Dorigo is a successful architect in Milan, nearing fifty, who has always been afraid of women. A regular at an upscale brothel for years, he mourns the lack of close ... Read more

    $11.99 USD