Dino Buzzati Libros

“ Los siete mensajeros y otros relatos” es una selección significativa en la que, además de piezas emblemáticas del autor italiano, como «Miedo en la Scala», «El hundimiento de la Baliverna», «El colombre» o la que da título al volumen, se recogen varios cuentos que se cimentan en uno de sus recursos favoritos, la parábola. En ellos, aunque a menudo distintos temas y preocupaciones se solapan, se trata de las heridas del tiempo, de los desencuentros amorosos y de la eterna condición humana. Otras veces el soporte de la fabulación lo constituye una situación intrascendente que acaba desbordando al individuo en medio de una atmósfera inquietante que a veces se desliza hacia el terror.

En El gran retrato encontramos un nuevo y magistral reflejo de la inquietud de Buzzati hacia la vida y su misterio esencial, que se entrelaza aquí con su visión del amor como obsesión, como condena y como salvación. Su planteamiento y argumento son sumamente originales que cabría adscribir a un peculiar género de «ciencia ficción metafísica» o «ciencia ficción amorosa». Pero mejor que someterla a cualquier clasificación es decir que se trata de otra gran novela de Buzzati, en toda la extensión del término, inquietante, conmovedora, sugerente y enriquecedora El gran retrato es una inequívoca muestra más de la gran calidad y personalidad literaria de Dino Buzzati, y junto con El desierto de los Tártaros y Un amor , puede verse como parte de una suerte de trilogía.

'Undoubtedly a masterpiece, a sublime book' Sunday TimesA dark and beautiful tale full of pain and longing, introduced by Tim Parks

In Catastrophe, the renowned Italian short story writer Dino Buzzati brings vividly to life the slow and quietly terrifying collapse of our known, everyday world. In stories touched by the fantastical and the strange, and filled with humor, irony, and menace, Buzzati illuminates the nightmarish side of our ordinary existence. From “The Epidemic,” which traces the gradual effects of a “state influenza” that targets those who disagree with the government, to “The Collapse of Baliverna,” where a man puzzles over whether a misstep on his part caused the collapse of a building, to “Seven Floors,” which imagines a sanatorium where patients are housed on each floor according to the gravity of their illness and brilliantly highlights the ominous machinations of bureaucracy, Buzzati’s surreal, unsettling tales reckon with the struggle that lies beneath everyday interactions, the sometimes perverse workings of human emotions and desires, and, with wit and pathos, describe the small steps we take as individuals and as a society in our march toward catastrophe. With hints of Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, Catastrophe, published for the first time in the United States, feels as timely today as ever.

This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by Dino Buzzati, author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe and one of the most original voices in twentieth-century literature.

A wonderful story for children and an allegory for adults about the absurdity of war, presented here with an introduction and guide to the text by Lemony Snicket. 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.

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 female companionship in his life. One afternoon, the madam at the brothel introduces Tonio to “a new girl,” Laide. Tonio sees nothing especially remarkable about her, though it intrigues him that she dances at La Scala and also at a strip club, and yet in a very short time he becomes completely obsessed with her. Laide leads Antonio on, confounds him, uses and humiliates him, treats him tenderly from time to time, lies to him, makes no apologies to him, and he loves her ever more. This helpless and hopeless love, he feels, is what he is, even as it prevents him from ever seeing Laide for who she is. Because Who is she? is the question at the heart of Buzzati’s clear-eyed and darkly comic tale of infatuation. Is A Love Affair a love story or is it a story of anything but love? Buzzati’s novel, with its psychological subtleties, vivid cityscapes, unsettling comedy, and compassion, keeps the reader guessing till the end.

"Featuring the Ashen Princess, the Line Inspector, trainloads of Devils, Trudy, Valentina, and the Talking Jacket, Poem Strip--a pathbreaking graphic novel from the 1960s--is a dark and alluring investigation into mysteries of love, lust, sex, and death by Dino Buzzati, a master of the Italian avant-garde"--Cover. p. [4]

This collection is a companion to the long-established and highly successful Modern Short Stories One and its essential aims are the same: to offer stories of high literary quality which, though written for adults, can be enjoyed and appreciated by adolescents. The fifteen stories included are by distinguished writers from Africa, America, Australia, India, Ireland, Italy and Great Britain; and within their artistic context several of them deal with the special personal and social concerns of society today.The collection includes stories by the likes of Dorothy Parker, Maeve Binchy, Garrison Keillor, Peter Carey, Flannery O'Connor and Nadine Gordimer.

Fusing elements of fantasy with social commentary, this anthology showcases the work of Dino Buzzati, an Italian master of short stories. Spanning four decades, it reflects the political and social turmoil of the twentieth century through imaginative tales that address global horrors and Italian issues alike. With a blend of humor, tragedy, and surrealism, Buzzati's stories, including classics and previously untranslated pieces, challenge ideological norms while creating unsettling yet plausible realities. Lawrence Venuti’s translations capture the essence of Buzzati's unique storytelling style.