Dino Buzzati
Italian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, painter and journalist, best known for the novel The Tartar Steppe (Il deserto dei Tartari) and his imaginative, often allegorical short stories.
Books
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1. La Boutique Del Mistero
A collection of strange, dreamlike short stories in which ordinary people encounter uncanny events or objects that reveal hidden fears, destiny and the absurdities of modern life. The tales blend irony and melancholy, shifting between fantasy and realist detail to probe themes of loneliness, fate, death and the bureaucratic or supernatural forces that shape human lives. The prose is spare and evocative, creating a persistent mood of quiet dread and dark wonder.
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2. The Bewitched Bourgeois
The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories is a 2025 short story collection by Italian writer Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti. An original selection of Buzzati's works, it runs through 50 works of short fiction written by Buzzati for a variety of publications in chronological order of publishing, although the vast majority were first in the Corriere della Sera, the newspaper where Buzzati spent most of his career. Buzzati won the Strega Prize for an Italian collection of his short stories, and The Bewitched Bourgeois received generally positive reviews from English-language critics as well. The stories range in length, with the longest almost being classified as a novella, while the shortest are only one page.
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