Clean Machine
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 Show More
by Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti.
NYRB, 328 pp., £17.99, January,
The Singularity
by Dino Buzzati, translated by Anne Milano Appel.
NYRB, 127 pp., £14.99, June 2024,978 1 68137 800 8 Show More
by Dino Buzzati, translated by Anne Milano Appel.
NYRB, 127 pp., £14.99, June 2024,
The Stronghold
by Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti.
NYRB, 207 pp., £16.99, May 2023,978 1 68137 714 8 Show More
by Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti.
NYRB, 207 pp., £16.99, May 2023,
“... and quite a few of Buzzati’s stories, fifty of which are included in a new selection by Lawrence Venuti, translate this claim into something like a theory of waiting, an almost religious faith in what hasn’t happened. A character in a posthumously published story, Why, defines ‘life in itself’ as ‘the wait for the departure’ and ... ”
