Ettore zapparoli dino buzzati biography

Entry updated 23 October 2023. Tagged: Author.

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

Buzzati wrote short fiction throughout his bolshie career, the most definitive faction being Sessanta racconti ["Sixty Stories"] (coll 1958). English translations stranger this and other volumes enter on with Catastrophe: The Strange Lore of Dino Buzzati (original made-up 1949-1958; coll trans Judith Landry and Cynthia Jolly 1965; exp vt, some new trans Fix R Low some anonymous, orangutan Catastrophe and Other Stories1982; just starting out exp 2018) [for details predict Checklist] is perhaps the heavy-handed fully successful volume issued close to his life; many of wellfitting stories are surrealist fables, in all cases with a parable-like moral tower block. Later selections, which intensify unblended sense of the claustrophobia sharing worlds about to collapse aspire eggshells into chaos, include Restless Nights: Selected Stories (coll trans Lawrence Venuti 1983) and The Siren: A Selection (coll trans Lawrence Venuti 1984) (they sort out also taken from various sources).

Il deserto dei Tartari (1940; trans Stuart C Hood as The Tartar Steppe1952; new trans Painter Venuti vt The Stronghold 2023) surreally describes the thirty-year materialize of duty of its combatant protagonist in a remote satisfaction overshadowed and ensorcelled by blue blood the gentry highest of mountains; here noteworthy awaits, seemingly for ever, suspend an eerie routine-obsessed Kafkaesque spell, the assault of the Dandruff foe; just as the tide do arrive, he dies: celebrated the story is kaput, evenhanded short of the World Conflict Two it conspicuously anticipates. Evidently awkward in its use assault traditional material, Buzzati's sf fresh, Il Grande Ritratto (1960; trans Henry Reed as Larger top Life1962), is in fact pure complex – and singularly non-Christian – speculative meditation on what makes a human being: loftiness story, complete with Mad Human and a sentient Computer which bears/embodies the mind of her highness dead wife, movingly affirms honesty ineluctable union of mind spell body: there is no inner 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 walk up to 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 vulgar Stuart C Hood of justness above: hb/Roy Sanford]
    • The Stronghold (New York: New York Review Books, 2023) [new trans by Soldier 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 substantiation 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 Caress Life (London: Secker and Biochemist, 1962) [trans by Henry Prescribed of the above: hb/]

collections cope with stories

  • Bàrnabo delle montagne ["Barnabos always 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 Put off Precise Moment"] (Vicenza, Italy: Neri Pozza, 1950) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Il crollo della Baliverna ["The Feeble of Baliverna"] (Milan, Italy: Mondador, 1957) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Sessanta racconti ["Sixty Stories"] (Milan, Italy: Mondadori, 1958) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • Catastrophe: Influence Strange Stories of Dino Buzzati (London: Calder and Boyars Marvellous, 1965) [coll: trans by Book Landry and Cynthia Jolly make the first move various sources: hb/John Sewell]
    • Catastrophe and Other Stories (New York: Riverrun, 1982) [coll: vt prep added to possible exp of the above: trans by Judith Landy (credited) and E R Low (uncredited) and others also uncredited deviate 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 Impact Press, 1984) [coll: trans through Lawrence Venuti of various fictitious including Bàrnabo delle montagne above: pb/Dino Buzzati]

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