Bøger af Dino Buzzati

Ny Jord – Tidsskrift for naturkritik er et multidisciplinært tidsskrift, der orienterer sig på tværs af århundreder og landegrænser og bringer videnskab, litteratur og kunst side om side i ønsket om at bidrage til en kvalificeret samtale om naturen i en tid, hvor vores forestillinger og idéer om den ændres markant.

"Fra Italien, som gav verden Pinocchio, kommer denne smukke børnebog – den slags, voksne låner af børn" Time "B(j)ørnelitteratur for mennesker i alle aldre" Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg, WeekendavisenVinteren raser, bjørnene sulter, og til slut beslutter de at komme ned fra bjergene for at finde mad i dalen. Leon, bjørnenes konge, har samtidig en en hemmelig plan om lede efter sin søn Tonio, der forsvandt for år tilbage. Storhertugen af Sicilien møder dem med våben, professoren Ambrosius må vælge side, spøgelserne viser sig venlige og måske ender det hele godt, men meget anderledes end ventet.Historien om bjørnene fra Sicilien udkom første gang i 1945 og er blevet en elsket klassiker, der på samme vis som fx Saint-Exupérys Den lille prins kan læses med stort udbytte af børn og voksne; en tragikomisk historie om krig, civilisationens skrøbelighed og forfængelighedens absurditet, en historie der også kan minde om George Orwells Kammerat Napoleon, ligeledes fra 1945. Bjørnene fra Sicilien er gennemillustreret af Dino Buzzati selv.Historien har i en animeret fortolkning haft dansk filmpremiere under samme titel i januar 2020.

'Undoubtedly a masterpiece, a sublime book' Sunday TimesA dark and beautiful tale full of pain and longing, introduced by Tim Parks

Uden forudsætninger for at skrive om cykelløb, faktisk uden nogensinde at have overværet et cykelløb, sendes den italienske forfatter og journalist Dino Buzzati (1906-1972) af sin avis afsted for at dække Giro d’Italia 1949: krigsstøvet har knapt har lagt sig, man famler efter normalitet og mening, og publikum hungrer efter en helt anden type dramatik – hvad de får i det endelige opgør mellem giganterne Fausto Coppi og Gino Bartali.Buzzatis ikoniske reportager sætter nye standarder for sportsjournalistik: Buzzati placerer cykelløbet i en levende litterær og poetisk ramme; han bygger bro mellem rytterne og publikum; og han giver stemme til landskabet, kammeratskabet, pinslerne og lidenskaben. Dino Buzzati formår at skrive om cykelløb, så selv cykel-fornægtere må overgive sig til den funklende og betagende prosa.I Italien er Buzzatis cykelbog blevet en klassiker; et tilbagevendende referencepunkt, såvel litterært som indenfor sportsjournalistikken (der trækkes f.eks. i dag ivrige paralleller mellem henholdsvis Bartali og Coppis opgør og Pogačar og Vingegaards). Buzzatis reportager betragtes den dag i dag som et nybrud indenfor genren.

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.The modern Italian writer Dino Buzzati wrote a huge body of short fiction, several hundred pieces, spanning a forty-year period. They offer a remarkable inventory of fantastic premises and tropes, international in the reach of their geographical settings, at times commenting on Italian issues but usually reflecting the worldwide horrors, catastrophes, and fanaticisms that characterized the twentieth century.A journalist for much of his life, Buzzati was adept at turning current events into fantasies that depicted social and political nightmares. He challenged the ideological complacencies of his era in accessible stories that solicit the reader’s vicarious response, mixing sentiment, humor, and tragedy. Here Poe and Kafka meet Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone.Lawrence Venuti presents a retrospective anthology that ranges from Buzzati’s first publications to texts written as he was dying of cancer. Buzzati’s own book-length selections are sampled, so that previously untranslated stories join new versions of classics like “Seven Floors,” an absurdist tale of a patient fatally caught in hospital bureaucracy; “Panic at La Scala,” where, fearful of a left-wing revolution, the Milanese bourgeoisie are imprisoned at the opera house; and “Appointment with Einstein,” in which the scientist encounters a gas station attendant who is the Angel of Death.Venuti’s crisp translations re-create Buzzati’s technique of making the fantastic seem frighteningly plausible, establishing unreal worlds that disrupt dominant notions of what is real. The Bewitched Bourgeois is a definitive gathering of Buzzati’s work in short fiction.

"Originally published as Il grande ritratto, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan 1960"--Copyright page.

At once a timeless fable and a philosophical allegory, Buzzati's famous children's story - here presented in a brand-new translation by Stephen Parkin.

A masterful collection of uncanny fables for our ?post-truth? world, with a new preface by Kevin BrockmeierIn Catastrophe, the renowned Italian short story writer Dino Buzzati brings vividly to life the slow and quietly terrifying collapse of our known, everyday world. In stories touched by the fantastical and the strange, and filled with humor, irony and menace, Buzzati illuminates the nightmarish side of our ordinary existence. From ?The Epidemic,? which traces the gradual effects of a ?State influenza? that targets those who disagree with the government, to ?The Collapse of Baliverna,? where a man puzzles over whether a misstep on his part caused the collapse of a building, to ?Seven Floors,? which imagines a sanatorium where patients are housed on each floor according to the gravity of their illness and brilliantly highlights the ominous machinations of bureaucracy, Buzzati's surreal, unsettling tales reckon with the struggle that lies beneath everyday interactions, the sometimes perverse workings of human emotions and desires and, with wit and pathos, describe the small steps we take as individuals and as a society in our march toward catastrophe. With hints of Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, Catastrophe, published for the first time in the United States, feels as timely today as ever.

This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by Dino Buzzati, author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe and one of the most original voices in twentieth-century literature.

The seminal work from one of Europe's foremost experimental writers of the twentieth century