Catastrophe and Other Stories
Editorial ALMA CLASSICS LTD
Festland Spanien
- Verlag ALMA CLASSICS LTD
- ISBN13 9781847497369
- ISBN10 1847497365
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Sammlung GARDNERS #
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2018
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
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English LiteraturCatastrophe and Other Stories
Editorial ALMA CLASSICS LTD
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by Dino Buzzati - author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe and one of the most original voices in twentieth-century literature - stories which show the Italian master's taste for the bizarre and the humorous, and for exploring the darker recesses of the human psyche.
From `The Collapse of the Baliverna', where a man is racked with guilt at the thought that he might have been responsible for the loss of many lives, to `The Epidemic', which describes the spread of a "state influenza" contracted only by people who don't step into line with the government, and `Terror at the Scala', where the higher echelons of Milan society are gripped with the fear of an impending revolution - these stories show how strange and unexpected events can creep into everyday life and draw ordinary people towards mystery, disquiet and, ultimately, catastrophe.