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Catastrophe: And Other Stories
Contributor(s): Buzzati, Dino (Author)
ISBN: 0062742736     ISBN-13: 9780062742735
Publisher: Ecco Press
OUR PRICE:   $18.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Psychological
Dewey: 853.914
Series: Art of the Story
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.8" (0.40 lbs) 240 pages
 
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In Catastrophe, the renowned Italian short story writer Dino Buzzati brings vividly to life the slow and quietly terrifying collapse of our known, everyday world. In stories touched by the fantastical and the strange, and filled with humor, irony, and menace, Buzzati illuminates the nightmarish side of our ordinary existence.

From "The Epidemic," which traces the gradual effects of a "state influenza" that targets those who disagree with the government, to "The Collapse of Baliverna," where a man puzzles over whether a misstep on his part caused the collapse of a building, to "Seven Floors," which imagines a sanatorium where patients are housed on each floor according to the gravity of their illness and brilliantly highlights the ominous machinations of bureaucracy, Buzzati's surreal, unsettling tales reckon with the struggle that lies beneath everyday interactions, the sometimes perverse workings of human emotions and desires, and, with wit and pathos, describe the small steps we take as individuals and as a society in our march toward catastrophe.

With hints of Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, Catastrophe, published for the first time in the United States, feels as timely today as ever.


Contributor Bio(s): Buzzati, Dino: -

Dino Buzzati was an internationally known Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist for Corriere della Sera. He is the author of novels including The Tartar Steppe, Larger Than Life and A Love Affair, as well as short story collections including Sixty Tales and The Seven Messengers. Buzzati died in Milan in 1972.