Dino Buzzati Livres

French

Le bref retour d'un fils... La déchéance d'un " homme d'honneur "... Un bon repas apprécié tardivement... Un enfant qui se refuse à dormir... Une fille qui montre qu'elle vaut plus qu'un garçon... Un curieux personnage plus soucieux de son orthographe que la morale... La confession du fils au chevet du père mourant... Est surpris qui voulait surprendre...

Les rêves de gloire du jeune officier Giovanni Drogo s'arrêtent brusquement au fort Bastiani, dernière sentinelle d'une "frontière morte". Que faire ? Rester et taire les tentations de la jeunesse, ou partir et avouer sa faiblesse devant l'épreuve qui l'attend ? La vanité militaire l'emportera et avec elle l'espoir d'un destin héroïque, mais c'est au confortable quotidien inlassablement identique qu'il va aliéner sa vie. Il ne se passera rien au fort qui puisse susciter tant d'espoir, rien qui puisse justifier l'absurde attente, si ce n'est l'emprise du désert. Lorsque, enfin, sonnera l'alarme, Drogo sera trop vieux et trop malade. Alors, résigné, il guettera serein son ultime ennemi... Dans cette spirale étourdissante où tout est scellé d'avance, l'ironie répond à la fatalité et Buzzati signe ici un ouvrage admirable de désespoir. --Lenaïc Gravis et Jocelyn Blériot

Un recueil de nouvelles dans lesquelles se retrouvent tous les grands the mes de l'imaginaire de D. Buzzati.

A wonderful story for children and an allegory for adults about the absurdity of war, presented here with an introduction and guide to the text by Lemony Snicket. Starving after a harsh winter, the bears descend from the mountains in search of food and invade the valley below, where they face fierce opposition from the army of the Grand Duke of Sicily. After many battles, scrapes and dangers, the bears' reign is established over the land, but their victory comes at a price.

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

Accomplished in his career but unaccomplished in love, a middle-aged architect is torn apart by his obsession with an enigmatic young woman in this delicately told story of desire and abjection by a titan of Italian literature. Antonio Dorigo is a successful architect in Milan, nearing fifty, who has always been afraid of women. A regular at an upscale brothel for years, he mourns the lack of close female companionship in his life. One afternoon, the madam at the brothel introduces Tonio to “a new girl,” Laide. Tonio sees nothing especially remarkable about her, though it intrigues him that she dances at La Scala and also at a strip club, and yet in a very short time he becomes completely obsessed with her. Laide leads Antonio on, confounds him, uses and humiliates him, treats him tenderly from time to time, lies to him, makes no apologies to him, and he loves her ever more. This helpless and hopeless love, he feels, is what he is, even as it prevents him from ever seeing Laide for who she is. Because Who is she? is the question at the heart of Buzzati’s clear-eyed and darkly comic tale of infatuation. Is A Love Affair a love story or is it a story of anything but love? Buzzati’s novel, with its psychological subtleties, vivid cityscapes, unsettling comedy, and compassion, keeps the reader guessing till the end.

Larger than Life is a 1960 novel by the Italian writer Dino Buzzati. It tells the story of a scientist who becomes entangled with a large electronic machine in which the woman he loves is reincarnated.