Dino Buzzati: The Bewitched Bourgeois
The Bewitched Bourgeois
Buch
- Fifty Stories
- Herausgeber: Lawrence Venuti
- Übersetzung: Lawrence Venuti
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EUR 20,94*
- New York Review of Books, 01/2025
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781681378671
- Bestellnummer: 11753570
- Umfang: 344 Seiten
- Gewicht: 367 g
- Maße: 202 x 126 mm
- Stärke: 21 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 7.1.2025
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"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"--Biografie (Dino Buzzati)
Dino Buzzati, geboren 1906 in San Pellegrino bei Belluno, gehörte zu den originellsten Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts in Italien. Ab 1928 arbeitete er als Berichterstatter, Redakteur und Sonderkorrespondent für den Corriere della Sera in Mailand, wo er 1972 starb. Seinem Debüt "Die Männer vom Gravetal" (1933) folgten zahlreiche und sehr erfolgreiche Romane und Erzählungen. Dino Buzzati
The Bewitched Bourgeois
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