The Bewitched Bourgeois
By Dino Buzzati
Edited by Lawrence Venuti
Translated by Lawrence Venuti
By Dino Buzzati
Edited by Lawrence Venuti
Translated by Lawrence Venuti
By Dino Buzzati
Edited by Lawrence Venuti
Translated by Lawrence Venuti
By Dino Buzzati
Edited by Lawrence Venuti
Translated by Lawrence Venuti
Category: Short Stories | Fantasy
Category: Short Stories | Fantasy
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$19.95
Jan 07, 2025 | ISBN 9781681378671
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Jan 07, 2025 | ISBN 9781681378688
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Praise
“Buzzati’s short-form fiction seems perfectly suited to our time of TikToks, tweets and online attention spans…. Pick up this book, and read one story each week…. Recreate the experience of those Italian newspaper readers who got to experience Buzzati’s seductive skills regularly. One at a time is enough because the stories are so tightly packed they continue to unfold in your mind after you finish. With 50 stories here, they will last you almost a year. Then you can go back to the beginning and start again.” —John Self, The Times (UK)
“Thanks to Venuti’s keen editorial eye and crisp translation, this stands as a brilliant record of Buzzati’s playful experimentation and lifelong obsessions.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“These marvelous stories inhabit a bewitched space. Borges and Poe are evident, but more importantly Buzzati’s alchemical blend of the known world and some other, invading realm looks forward to the time of Stephen King, and Robert Aickman, and Shirley Jackson. These are tales that stick to your ribs.” —John Darnielle
“There are very few writers whose stories feel so unique and original that you can’t imagine anyone else writing them. Lawrence Venuti’s deft translation of these fifty stories makes it clear that Buzzati is one of these few. Smart, quirky, buoyant and wonderfully absurd, Buzzati is the missing link between Kafka and twenty-first-century fabulism.” —Brian Evenson
“Thanks to Venuti’s keen editorial eye and crisp translation, this stands as a brilliant record of Buzzati’s playful experimentation and lifelong obsessions.” —Publishers Weekly
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