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A masterful collection of uncanny fables for our "post-truth" world, with a new preface by Kevin Brockmeier
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 Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, Catastrophe, published for the first time in the United States, feels as timely today as ever.
Detalles
- Título Catastrophe: And Other Stories
- Autor Dino Buzzati
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Páginas 240
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Ecco Press
- Fecha de publicación 2018-03-27
- ISBN 9780062742735 / 0062742736
- Peso 0.4 libras (0.18 kg)
- Dimensiones 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.7 pulgadas (19.81 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Italy, Short stories
- Dewey Decimal Code 853.914
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- Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2018, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 01/08/2018, Page 0
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