- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (7 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141184124
- ISBN-13: 978-0141184128
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,185,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Young Giovanni Drogo is posted to remote Fort Bastini, overlooking the Tartar Steppe. Pubished in 1939, this story is an indictment of military life and a meditation on human thirst for glory.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Buzzati's minor classic draws on the elements of Kafkaesque menace and isolation to create a unique tale of considerable power and cumulative unease. The growing sense of abandonment experienced by the hero is conveyed in an unadorned prose that somehow generates a hallucinatory sense of forboding, without specifying the exact nature of the threat, beyond the ostensible setting of a forgotten military outpost of some unamed empire. Moving and revelatory, an existential masterpiece.
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Superb analysis of the lonelyness and despair of human being. Written during the WWII period this book breaks into the soul and spots the frantic passing of time, the seductiveness of mental lazyness, the lonelyness of man between men and within the nature and the universe. To think about in the communication era when men do not communicate any more but via a keyboard.
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