Dino Buzzati

Roman "Barnabo s Gor" rasskazyvaet ob otrjade lesnichikh, zhivuschikh v uedinenii alpijskikh lesov, im poruchena okhrana skrytogo sredi gor zabroshennogo sklada. Odnazhdy nochju na sklad sovershaetsja nalet, molodoj lesnichij Barnabo, okhvachennyj strakhom, pokidaet svoj post, za chto ego izgonjajut iz otrjada. Molodomu cheloveku prikhoditsja spustitsja v dolinu i zhit vdali ot gor v tomitelnom ozhidanii dnja, kogda on smozhet ispravit oshibki proshlogo. Imenno Barnabo pervym iz geroev Butstsati ispytyvaet na sebe neumolimuju silu vremeni, eta tema pojavitsja i v drugikh proizvedenijakh avtora, v tom chisle i v znamenitoj pritche "Tatarskaja pustynja".

Polkovnik v otstavke Sebastjano Prokolo - chelovek, kotoryj nikogda ne ulybaetsja, - poluchaet v nasledstvo dom i uchastok lesa v gorakh, odnako bolshaja chast vladenij unasledovana plemjannikom polkovnika - dvenadtsatiletnim Benvenuto, sirotoj, zhivuschim v pansione. Staryj Les - volshebnoe mesto: v stvolakh vekovykh elej zhivut dukhi, kotorye mogut prinimat oblik cheloveka ili zverja. I potomu nikto i nikogda ne reshalsja vyrubat te derevja. No polkovnik ne verit v glupye legendy i reshaet navesti v Starom Lesu svoi porjadki, razobravshis zaodno i s plemjannikom...Prichudlivaja i izjaschnaja "Zagadka Starogo Lesa", s ee legkoj i pechalnoj intonatsiej, na pervyj vzgljad otnositsja k zhanru literaturnoj skazki dlja vzroslykh, odnako za nezatejlivoj v sjuzhetnom otnoshenii imitatsiej narodnoj legendy skryvaetsja glubokaja pritcha o gubitelnosti protivostojanija cheloveka i prirody.

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. The modern Italian writer Dino Buzzati wrote a huge body of short fiction, several hundred pieces, spanning a forty-year period. They offer a remarkable inventory of fantastic premises and tropes, international in the reach of their geographical settings, at times commenting on Italian issues but usually reflecting the worldwide horrors, catastrophes, and fanaticisms that characterized the twentieth century. A journalist for much of his life, Buzzati was adept at turning current events into fantasies that depicted social and political nightmares. He challenged the ideological complacencies of his era in accessible stories that solicit the reader's vicarious response, mixing sentiment, humor, and tragedy. Here Poe and Kafka meet Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone. Lawrence Venuti presents a retrospective anthology that ranges from Buzzati's first publications to texts written as he was dying of cancer. Buzzati's own book-length selections are sampled, so that previously untranslated stories join new versions of classics like "Seven Floors," an absurdist tale of a patient fatally caught in hospital bureaucracy; "Panic at La Scala," where, fearful of a left-wing revolution, the Milanese bourgeoisie are imprisoned at the opera house; and "Appointment with Einstein," in which the scientist encounters a gas station attendant who is the Angel of Death. Venuti's crisp translations re-create Buzzati's technique of making the fantastic seem frighteningly plausible, establishing unreal worlds that disrupt dominant notions of what is real. The Bewitched Bourgeois is a definitive gathering of Buzzati's work in short fiction.

"Tatarskaja pustynja" - shedevr pritchevoj prozy, okazavshij znachitelnoe vlijanie na posledujuschuju modernistskuju literaturu, - svoeobraznoe zhitie molodogo ofitsera, kotoryj vsju zhizn provel na dalekom forposte na kraju pustyni v ozhidanii napadenija tainstvennykh varvarskikh ord, po smutnym slukham, zhivuschikh po tu ee storonu. Istorija zhizni, rastrachennoj v ozhidanii dejstvija, v nadezhde i strakhe togo, chto "chto-to sluchitsja".Prichudlivaja i izjaschnaja "Zagadka Starogo Lesa", s ee legkoj i pechalnoj intonatsiej, na pervyj vzgljad otnositsja k zhanru literaturnoj skazki dlja vzroslykh, odnako za nezatejlivoj v sjuzhetnom otnoshenii imitatsiej narodnoj legendy skryvaetsja glubokaja pritcha o gubitelnosti protivostojanija cheloveka i prirody.

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-secret mission at a mysterious research center, isolated from the world among forests, plunging cliffs, and high mountains. What's he supposed to do there? Not clear. How long will he be there? No saying. Still, Ismani takes the mystifying job and, accompanied by his no-nonsense wife, Elisa, heads to the so-called Experimental Camp of Military Zone 36, wondering whether, in the midst of the Cold War, it's some sort of nuclear project he's been assigned to. But no, the colleagues the couple meets on arrival assure them, it's nothing like that. It's much, much more powerful. At the center of the research complex is strange, shining, at times murmurous, white wall. Behind it, a deep gorge drops away, full of wires and radio towers and mobile sensors and a host of eccentric structures. A question begins to dawn: Could this be the shape of consciousness itself? And if so, whose? Buzzati's novella of 1960, a pioneering work of Italian science fiction, is published here in a brisk new translation by Anne Milano Appel. In it, Buzzati explores his favorite themes of love and longing while offering a startlingly prescient parable of artificial intelligence.

Uden forudsætninger for at skrive om cykelløb, faktisk uden nogensinde at have overværet et cykelløb, sendes den italienske forfatter og journalist Dino Buzzati (1906-1972) af sin avis afsted for at dække Giro d’Italia 1949: krigsstøvet har knapt har lagt sig, man famler efter normalitet og mening, og publikum hungrer efter en helt anden type dramatik – hvad de får i det endelige opgør mellem giganterne Fausto Coppi og Gino Bartali.Buzzatis ikoniske reportager sætter nye standarder for sportsjournalistik: Buzzati placerer cykelløbet i en levende litterær og poetisk ramme; han bygger bro mellem rytterne og publikum; og han giver stemme til landskabet, kammeratskabet, pinslerne og lidenskaben. Dino Buzzati formår at skrive om cykelløb, så selv cykel-fornægtere må overgive sig til den funklende og betagende prosa.I Italien er Buzzatis cykelbog blevet en klassiker; et tilbagevendende referencepunkt, såvel litterært som indenfor sportsjournalistikken (der trækkes f.eks. i dag ivrige paralleller mellem henholdsvis Bartali og Coppis opgør og Pogacar og Vingegaards). Buzzatis reportager betragtes den dag i dag som et nybrud indenfor genren.

Modern italiensk, existentiell klassiker i efterlängtad nyutgåvaDen unge officeren Giovanni Drogo är fast besluten att försvara sitt land i det krig som alla väntar på. Han anländer, full av idealistiska anspråk, till fästningen Fort Bastiani, en utpost överblickande den ödsliga Tataröknen, och möts där av åldrade veteraner som aldrig sett ett spår av fienden. Utan att han märker det går samma öde honom obönhörligen själv till mötes. Medan han väntar på den beryktade fienden har dagar blivit till år, och år till decennier. Under den gångna tiden har hans gamla vänner inne i staden gift sig och fått barn, levt fullvärdiga liv, allt medan Dino och hans medsoldater suttit ut en enda lång och tålmodig vaka. Dino Buzzatis Tataröknen - ofta jämförd med Franz Kafkas Slottet och Albert Camus Myten om Sisyfos - skrevs 1938 när hela världen väntade på att kriget skulle bryta ut. Det är samtidigt en svidande kritik mot det militära livet och en stillsam betraktelse av det mänskliga begäret efter ära. I översättning av Eva Alexanderson, med ett nyskrivet förord av författaren och kritikern Torbjörn Elensky.DINO BUZZATI [född 1906 i Belluno, död 1972 i Milano] var en italiensk författare, journalist och konstnär med en bred litterär repertoar. Hans verklista inkluderar utöver romanerna ett antal novellsamlingar, men också dramatik, lyrik och libretton. Mest känd är Buzzati för den existentialistiska romanen Tartaröknen [Il deserto dei Tartari, 1940] som kommit att betraktas som en modern italiensk klassiker.

Polkovnik v otstavke Sebastjano Prokolo - chelovek, kotoryj nikogda ne ulybaetsja, - poluchaet v nasledstvo dom i uchastok lesa v gorakh, odnako bolshaja chast vladenij unasledovana plemjannikom polkovnika - dvenadtsatiletnim Benvenuto, sirotoj, zhivuschim v pansione. Staryj Les - volshebnoe mesto: v stvolakh vekovykh elej zhivut dukhi, kotorye mogut prinimat oblik cheloveka ili zverja. I potomu nikto i nikogda ne reshalsja vyrubat te derevja. No polkovnik ne verit v glupye legendy i reshaet navesti v Starom Lesu svoi porjadki, razobravshis zaodno i s plemjannikom...Prichudlivaja i izjaschnaja "Zagadka Starogo Lesa", s ee legkoj i pechalnoj intonatsiej, na pervyj vzgljad, otnositsja k zhanru literaturnoj skazki dlja vzroslykh odnako za nezatejlivoj v sjuzhetnom otnoshenii imitatsiej narodnoj legendy skryvaetsja glubokaja pritcha o gubitelnosti protivostojanija cheloveka i prirody.

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 Dorigi is a successful architect in Milan, nearing fifty, who has always been afraid of women. He has been a regular at an upscale brothel for years, even as 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 (short for Adelaide). Tonio sees nothing especially remarkable about Laide, 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 obssessed with her. Laide draws 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 is what he is, he feels, even as it prevents him--we see--from ever seeing Laide for who she is. Because Who is she? is the question at the heart of Buzzati's clear-eyed and often comic tale of infatuation. Laide is a young woman who has never known the bourgeois prosperity Tonio takes for granted, someone in a pickle looking for a main chance. She is a storyteller and someone, too, who knows how stories tell on people and shape their desires and lives. Is A Love Affair a love story or is it a story of anything but love? Buzzati's novel, with its psychological subtleties, its vivid cityscapes, and its compassion, keeps the reader guessing till the end.

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 mountains; to the south, a great desert; and somewhere out there is the enemy, whose attack is imminent. This is the enemy that Lieutenant Drogo has been sent to draw out of his lair, to defeat once and for all, returning home in triumph. And yet time passes, and where is the enemy? As the soldiers in the fortress await the foretold day of reckoning, they succumb to inertia, and though death occurs, it is not from bravery. Decades pass. A lifetime passes. Drogo, however, still has his lonely vigil to keep. Buzzati is one of the great Italian writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his fantastical imagination and for a touch that is as lyrical as it is light. The Stronghold, previously translated as The Tartar Steppe, is his most celebrated work, a book that has been read as a veiled attack on Mussolini's fascist militarism, a prophetic allegory of the Cold War, and an existentialist fable. Lawrence Venuti's new translation reverts to the title that Buzzati originally intended to give his book, and seeks to bring out both the human and the historical dimensions of a story of proven power and poignancy.

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.

"Fra Italien, som gav verden Pinocchio, kommer denne smukke børnebog – den slags, voksne låner af børn" Time "B(j)ørnelitteratur for mennesker i alle aldre" Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg, WeekendavisenVinteren raser, bjørnene sulter, og til slut beslutter de at komme ned fra bjergene for at finde mad i dalen. Leon, bjørnenes konge, har samtidig en en hemmelig plan om lede efter sin søn Tonio, der forsvandt for år tilbage. Storhertugen af Sicilien møder dem med våben, professoren Ambrosius må vælge side, spøgelserne viser sig venlige og måske ender det hele godt, men meget anderledes end ventet.Historien om bjørnene fra Sicilien udkom første gang i 1945 og er blevet en elsket klassiker, der på samme vis som fx Saint-Exupérys Den lille prins kan læses med stort udbytte af børn og voksne; en tragikomisk historie om krig, civilisationens skrøbelighed og forfængelighedens absurditet, en historie der også kan minde om George Orwells Kammerat Napoleon, ligeledes fra 1945. Bjørnene fra Sicilien er gennemillustreret af Dino Buzzati selv.Historien har i en animeret fortolkning haft dansk filmpremiere under samme titel i januar 2020.

Dino Buzzatin (1906-72) kertomuksia vihdoin suomeksi!Dino Buzzati oli 1900-luvun merkittävimpia italialaisia kirjailijoita, omaperäinen, kaukaista sukua Kafkalle ja Poelle, ja ällistyttävän ajankohtainen.Hänen pääteemansa on hukkaan menevä aika, kuinka se kuluu väärässä odotuksessa, päättämättömyydessä, pelossa. Hän tuo ahdistavaan arkeen fantasiaa, huumoria ja näyttää ihmisen typeryyden ja ahneuden. Silti monessa kirjan kahdestakymmenestäneljästä kertomuksesta on myös hyvä annos hellyyttä.

Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by veteran soldiers who have grown old without seeing a trace of the enemy. As his length of service stretches from months into years, he continues to wait patiently for the enemy to advance across the desert, for one great and glorious battle . . . Written in 1938 as the world waited for war, and internationally acclaimed since its publication, The Tartar Steppe is a provocative and frightening tale of hope, longing and the terrible sorcery of dreams and desires.

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 – stories which show the Italian master’s taste for the bizarre and the humorous, and for exploring the darker recesses of the human psyche.From ‘The Collapse of the Baliverna’, where a man is racked with guilt at the thought that he might have been responsible for the loss of many lives, to ‘The Epidemic’, which describes the spread of a “state influenza” contracted only by people who don’t step into line with the government, and ‘Terror at the Scala’, where the higher echelons of Milan society are gripped with the fear of an impending revolution – these stories show how strange and unexpected events can creep into everyday life and draw ordinary people towards mystery, disquiet and, ultimately, catastrophe.