Book description
Poe and Kafka meet The Twilight Zone in this anthology of fifty fantastical tales, many of them reflecting the political and social energies of the time, by an Italian master of the short story.
Dino Buzzati was a prolific writer of stories, publishing several hundred over the course of forty…
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1 author picked The Bewitched Bourgeois as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Dino Buzzati is one of the greatest, most imaginative storytellers of the 20th centuries; he recalls Kafka, Calvino, Gogol, Pirandello and has lots of fantasy elements. Two stories (Seven Floors and the Time Machine) are absurd meditations on mortality and life. Indirectly the stories reveal postwar Italy and its mundane absurdities. These stories all surprised and delighted me.
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