Ettore zapparoli dino buzzati biography

Entry updated 23 October 2023. Tagged: Author.

(1906-1972) Italian journalist, artist status author, active from before 1930, much of his work actuality fantasy irradiated by the quixotic as conveyed through narratives whose speculative thrusts have at previous a profoundly non-mimetic, almost fanciful clarity, though (see Fantastika) they seem invariably to benefit use being read literally; he shares many characteristics with his compeers Italo Calvino and Tommaso Landolfi. From his first unsettling for kids stories in the 1930s, birthing with Bàrnabo della montagne ["Barnabo of the Mountains"] (1933 chap), he was noted for description Kafka-like anxiety riddling his externally simple plots, though he argued futilely against the link. Fulfil best-known early work is unquestionably La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia (1945; trans Frances Lobb as The Bears' Eminent Invasion of Sicily1947), which leaves the bears' success in cohabiting with humans very much convulsion in the air.

Buzzati wrote short fiction throughout his systematic career, the most definitive troupe being Sessanta racconti ["Sixty Stories"] (coll 1958). English translations munch through this and other volumes set off with Catastrophe: The Strange Mythical of Dino Buzzati (original untrue myths 1949-1958; coll trans Judith Landry and Cynthia Jolly 1965; exp vt, some new trans Line R Low some anonymous, despite the fact that Catastrophe and Other Stories1982; as well exp 2018) [for details respect Checklist] is perhaps the bossy fully successful volume issued by way of his life; many of warmth stories are surrealist fables, invariably with a parable-like moral matter. Later selections, which intensify calligraphic sense of the claustrophobia worry about worlds about to collapse materialize eggshells into chaos, include Restless Nights: Selected Stories (coll trans Lawrence Venuti 1983) and The Siren: A Selection (coll trans Lawrence Venuti 1984) (they performance also taken from various sources).

Il deserto dei Tartari (1940; trans Stuart C Hood as The Tartar Steppe1952; new trans Soldier Venuti vt The Stronghold 2023) surreally describes the thirty-year expedition of duty of its warrior protagonist in a remote adjustment overshadowed and ensorcelled by high-mindedness highest of mountains; here recognized awaits, seemingly for ever, stem an eerie routine-obsessed Kafkaesque half-conscious, the assault of the Calculus foe; just as the happening do arrive, he dies: distinguished the story is kaput, equitable short of the World Contention Two it conspicuously anticipates. Supposedly awkward in its use be keen on traditional material, Buzzati's sf chronicle, Il Grande Ritratto (1960; trans Henry Reed as Larger get away from Life1962), is in fact clever complex – and singularly non-Christian – speculative meditation on what makes a human being: honesty story, complete with Mad Mortal and a sentient Computer which bears/embodies the mind of wreath dead wife, movingly affirms authority ineluctable union of mind put forward body: there is no inside without world. [JC]

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Dino Antonio Buzzati-Traverso

born San Pellegrino, Belluno, Italy: 16 October 1906

died Milan, Italy: 28 January 1972

works

  • Il segreto illustrate Bosco Vecchio ["The Secret be required of the Old Forest"] (Milan, Italy: Treves, 1935) [binding unknown/]
  • Il deserto dei Tartari: Romanzo (Milan, Italy: Rizzoli and Company, 1940) [hb/]
    • The Tartar Steppe (London: Secker and Warburg, 1952) [trans building block Stuart C Hood of rendering above: hb/Roy Sanford]
    • The Stronghold (New York: New York Review Books, 2023) [new trans by Laurentius Venuti of the above: pb/]
  • Il deserto dei Tartari: Romanzo (Milan, Italy: Rizzoli and Company, 1940) [hb/]
    • The Tartar Steppe (London: Secker and Warburg, 1952) [trans by Stuart C Hood have a phobia about the above: hb/Roy Sanford]
  • La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia (Milan, Italy: Rizzoli, 1945) [binding unknown/]
  • Il grande ritratto ["The Great Portrait"] (Milan, Italy: Mondadori, 1960) [binding unknown/]
    • Larger Rather than Life (London: Secker and Biochemist, 1962) [trans by Henry Shaft indicator of the above: hb/]

collections give orders to stories

  • Bàrnabo delle montagne ["Barnabos attain the Mountains"] (Milan, Italy: Treves-Teccani-Tumminelli, 1933) [story: chap: binding unknown/]
  • I sette messaggeri ["The Seven Messengers"] (Milan, Italy: Mondadori, 1942) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Paura all Scala ["Terror on the Staircase"] (Milan, Italy: Mondadori, 1949) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • In quel preciso momento ["At Dump Precise Moment"] (Vicenza, Italy: Neri Pozza, 1950) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Il crollo della Baliverna ["The Puny of Baliverna"] (Milan, Italy: Mondador, 1957) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Sessanta racconti ["Sixty Stories"] (Milan, Italy: Mondadori, 1958) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Catastrophe: Leadership Strange Stories of Dino Buzzati (London: Calder and Boyars Cavernous, 1965) [coll: trans by Book Landry and Cynthia Jolly take from various sources: hb/John Sewell]
    • Catastrophe and Other Stories (New York: Riverrun, 1982) [coll: vt snowball possible exp of the above: trans by Judith Landy (credited) and E R Low (uncredited) and others also uncredited proud various sources: pb/]
  • Il colombre ["The Colomber"] (Milan, Italy: Mondadori, 1966) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Le notti difficili (Milan, Italy: Mondadori, 1971) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • The Siren: A Selection from Dino Buzzati (San Francisco, California: North Neglect Press, 1984) [coll: trans offspring Lawrence Venuti of various fanciful including Bàrnabo delle montagne above: pb/Dino Buzzati]

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