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by Dino Buzzati (Author), Stuart Hood (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 214 pages
  • Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd; New edition edition (26 Sep 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 185754286X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857542868
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,560,734 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'With obvious affinities to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is a serener and more immediately rewarding book.' --The Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Young Giovanni Drogo is posted to remote Fort Bastiani, overlooking the Tartar Steppe. Published in Italy in 1945, this story is an indictment of military life and a meditiation on human thirst for glory.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very original and thought provoking book, 26 Jun 2001
Sometimes described as an indictment of military life and thought, this book touches on far more. It somehow reaches into ones innermost mind, to put a precise finger on the futility of ones existence, yet also on the inevitibality of our destiny. I have read thousands of books in my time, but never one that made me so sad for my own life. The setting for this powerful book - the lonely Fort Bastiani, in some unknown place and time - is superbly painted, and its characters in perfect keeping with it. A book that deserves to be more well known, it would stand very favourable comparison with many contemporary novels.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting and Hopeless, 29 May 2007
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I can't believe no one's reviewed this book yet. I came across it as a result of 1001 Books To Read Before You Die, and though I'd never heard of it before, it definitely deserves to be in that list (or even 10 Books To Read Before You Die). It's haunting, sad, melancholic and, if you find yourself stuck in a rut, it might make you rethink your situation. The story is based around a young soldier assigned to a remote fortress whose garrison is perpetually waiting, waiting and hoping for an attack by the enemy, whoever they are, from across the desert they have to watch. If that sounds like a boring idea for a book, it honestly isn't. It's absolutely beautiful. Buy it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Everyone is in the Tartar steppe, 12 Nov 2003
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You read it and you will see that "Giovanni Drogo" is you. The story written by Buzzati is terribly true: the life of our main character in the fortress is a metaphora of our life. Drogo is waiting for a climax during his whole life, something that may give a meaning to his life and to his efforts. A life sacrificed to his carreer. People in the fortress are cast away from society waiting for a reward, they are like a community inside a prison where someone wants to escape and someone has given up any hope and feel unfit for the actual world. Nothing is happening, nothing will happen. When something that Drogo was waiting for his whole life is arriving, it' too late and his attention is now focusing on his life that is about to end. This book wakes you up and makes you think that maybe you are in the fortress waiting for something.Maybe you should get out before it is too late. This book will definitively give you a shake.
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