About this title: A young officer is stationed in a remote area and wishes only to escape. Gradually, however, he falls in love with the place, which is both mountainous and desert-like, and spends most of his life there. Written in 1938, Dino Buzzati's deliberately uneventful allegory owes debts to Kafka as well as to Calvino.
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Edition: Verba Mundi ed.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Date published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780879239923ISBN:0879239921
Description: Very good. First Verba Mundi Edition-1995-Paperback. Author: Dino Buzzati. Translated by Stuart C. Hood. Publisher: Verba Mundi, David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston. Outer cover almost perfect, spine tight and stiff, top edge very slightly dust-smudged, other edges spotless, text bright, crisp and unmarked. -Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a mediation on the human thirst for glory. Undoubtedly, this book is a masterpiece. ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Paladin
Date published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780586087664ISBN:0586087664
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Date published: 1996
ISBN-13:9781857542868ISBN:185754286X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Date published: 1996
ISBN-13:9781857542868ISBN:185754286X
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Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd., Manchester, England
Date published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780856355929ISBN:0856355925
Description: Trans. : Hood, Stuart C. Very Good+/Very Good+ 0856355925 Clean Copy Almost new condition. Black cover with gilt lettering on spine. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Date published: 26/09/1996
ISBN-13:9781857542868ISBN:185754286X
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Date published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781841959283ISBN:1841959286
Description: A new edition of one of the classics of twentieth century literature. Young Givanni Drogo arrives at the bleak border area of the Tartar Steppe where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, an encampment manned by veterans who have grown ol... read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: DAVID R GODINE
Date published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781567923049ISBN:1567923046
Description: New. Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. read more
Edition: Verba Mundi ed.
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Date published: 1995-07
ISBN-13:9780879239923ISBN:0879239921
Description: Very Good. 1st Verba Mundi Edition (Stated) 1995 David R. Godine, Publisher (Boston) Trade Paperback; text clean/UNMARKED; color cover very mild surface rubbing/edge + corner curling; spine strong + uncreased; NOT x-library; No remainder mark; Not book club; 202 pages + 6 preliminary pgs; translated from Italian by Stuart C. Hood; 30 chapters; author biography (inside) w/half-page b+w photograph (back cover); color front cover illustration shows detail from "La Bataille de Nancy" by Eugene ... read more
"Pallid description, tedious plot, a banalest theme. Really a meaningless repetition of Kafka without any inspirational insight. Life is absolutely absurd. Hope is an allusion. Man keeps theatiing himself. Can Buzzati tell something more than all of them? "Italian Kafka" is an quite undeserved honour to this untalented imitator. Two stars is for his fairly serious writing attitude."
"Buzzati has some really interesting thoughts on hope and desires. There are some great lines in there, some to do with life like being the pages turning in a book.
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