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The Tartar Steppe / by Dino Buzzati ; translated from the Italian by Stuart C. Hood.
LIBRA - Special PQ4807.U83 D43 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buzzati, Dino, 1906-1972.
- Series:
- Verba Mundi
- A Verba Mundi book
- Standardized Title:
- Deserto dei tartari. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers--Fiction.
- Soldiers.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- War stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 198 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : D.R. Godine, 2005.
- Summary:
- "Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others' wait for a foreign invasion that never happens. Over time the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade--until the day the enemy begins massing on the desolate steppe."--Publisher's website.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 1995.
- ISBN:
- 9781567923049
- 1567923046
- OCLC:
- 61448223
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