BUZZATI, Dino

BUZZATI, Dino
(1906-1972)
   Italian writer and journalist. From his first unsettling children's stories in the 1930s he was noted for the KAFKA-like anxiety riddling his apparently simple plots. Catastrophe (original stories 1949-58; coll trans Judith Landry and Cynthia Jolly 1965 UK) is perhaps the most fully successful volume issued during his life; many of its stories are surrealist fables, always with a parable-like moral edge. Later selections, which intensify a sense of the claustrophobia of worlds about to collapse like eggshells into chaos, are Restless Nights: Selected Stories (coll trans Lawrence Venuti 1983 US) and The Siren: A Selection (coll trans Lawrence Venuti 1984 US). In Il Grande Ritratto (1960; trans Henry Reed as Larger than Life 1962 UK), a full-length novel and rather less successful, a not very convincingly described COMPUTER complex is programmed with the personality of a woman.
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   Other works: Il Deserto dei Tartari (1940; trans S.C. Hood as The Tartar Steppe 1952 UK).
   See also: ITALY.

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