Dino Buzzati was born in Italy in 1906. After receiving a law degree from the University of Milan, he worked as a reporter and later as special correspondent and editor for the Corriere della Sera. His literary career began in 1933 with the publication of Barnabas of the Mountains and The Secret of the Old Forest; however, it was not until publication of The Tartar Steppe in 1940 and The Seven Messengers in 1942 that he received proper recognition in the mainstream of contemporary European literature. His works have been translated into many languages. Buzzati died in Milan in 1972.
A strange and haunting novel, an eccentric classic
*J.M. COETZEE*
It is not often that a masterpiece falls into one's hands. But The
Tartar Steppe is undoubtedly a masterpiece, a sublime book, and
Buzzati a master of the written word
* * Sunday Times * *
There are names that the coming generations will not resign
themselves to forget. Surely one of them is that of Dino
Buzzati
*JORGE LUIS BORGES*
A beautiful, masterly novel that shimmers like a mirage, bringing
into sharp focus the rise and fall of our ambitions and the
pitiless erosion of time. It is the story of one Giovanni Drogo -
yet how many of us will be stricken to recognise something of
ourselves in him?
*YANN MARTEL*
The Tartar Steppe is a nightmare, a comedy of errors, a beautiful
and anguished fable, a call to resistance against folly, the
inspired assurance that one last act may justify our lifelong
struggle to remain human
*ALBERTO MANGUEL*
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