The Stronghold
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Descripción
A glory-starved soldier spends his life awaiting an absent, long-expected enemy in this influential Italian classic of existentialism, now newly translated and with its originally intended title restored. At the start of Dino Buzzati's The Stronghold, newly commissioned officer Giovanni Drogo has just received his first posting: the remote Fortezza Bastiani. North of this stronghold are impassable mountains; to the south, a great desert; and somewhere out there is the enemy, whose attack is imminent. This is the enemy that Lieutenant Drogo has been sent to draw out of his lair, to defeat once and for all, returning home in triumph. And yet time passes, and where is the enemy? As the soldiers in the fortress await the foretold day of reckoning, they succumb to inertia, and though death occurs, it is not from bravery. Decades pass. A lifetime passes. Drogo, however, still has his lonely vigil to keep. Buzzati is one of the great Italian writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his fantastical imagination and for a touch that is as lyrical as it is light. The Stronghold, previously translated as The Tartar Steppe, is his most celebrated work, a book that has been read as a veiled attack on Mussolini's fascist militarism, a prophetic allegory of the Cold War, and an existentialist fable. Lawrence Venuti's new translation reverts to the title that Buzzati originally intended to give his book, and seeks to bring out both the human and the historical dimensions of a story of proven power and poignancy.
Detalles
Formato | Tapa suave |
Número de Páginas | 216 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | New York Review of Books |
Fecha de Publicación | 2023-05-23 |
Dimensiones | 7.7" x 5.1" x 0.7" pulgadas |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | No |
Temas | Italia, Italia |
Acerca del Autor
Dino Buzzati (1906-1972) was an Italian journalist, artist, and author. A gifted artist as well as writer, Buzzati was the author of five novels, numerous short stories and poems, a children's book, and a comic book, Poem Strip (published by NYRB Classics). Lawrence Venuti is a leading translation scholar, editor, and translator from Italian, French, and Catalan. His translations have won awards from the PEN American Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Garantía & Otros
Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
Peso: | 0.227 kg |
SKU: | 9781681377148 |
Publicado en Unimart.com: | 17/09/24 |
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