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Michael Wood: On Dino Buzzati, 17 April 2025

The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories 
by Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti.
NYRB, 328 pp., £17.99, January, 978 1 68137 867 1
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The Singularity 
by Dino Buzzati, translated by Anne Milano Appel.
NYRB, 127 pp., £14.99, June 2024, 978 1 68137 800 8
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The Stronghold 
by Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti.
NYRB, 207 pp., £16.99, May 2023, 978 1 68137 714 8
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... Dino Buzzati​ ’s novel The Singularity was published in Italian in 1960 but set in 1972. Just a small leap into the future, but far enough for the second date to be that of Buzzati’s death. A coincidence, of course, but one that hints at meaning or design, as coincidences often do ...

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