Catastrophe And Other Stories

Catastrophe And Other StoriesThis 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 stories which show the Italian master's taste for the bizarre and the humorous, and for exploring the darker recesses of the human psyche. From `The Collapse of the Baliverna', where a man is racked with guilt at the thought that he might have been

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