The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
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Author: Dino BuzzatiTranslator: Stuart C. Hood
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-30
ISBN: 1567923046
Number of pages: 198
Publisher: David R. Godine
Book Reviews of The Tartar Steppe
Book Review: A disturbing book of wisdom
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked this book up yesterday and I could not put it down. In fact, I finished it off before I went to bed. Dino's prose (along with the translator's skill) invoked the unease of desolation in the beginning of the book, and much later a similar desolation in a different setting. I felt the uncertainty and excitement of the characters when they saw unidentified things in the distance.
Dino's ability to keep me interested aside, this book gave me a feeling of uneasiness about my life itself. I am still quite young, and I fear the postponement of the great things in my life now more than ever. Occasionally Dino steps outside of the events of the fort to describe youth and the process of aging in a haunting way.
I'll be sure to keep this book around to read again on a lazy afternoon.
Summary of The Tartar Steppe
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others' wait for a foreign invasion that never happens. Over time the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade until the day the enemy begins massing on the desolate steppe...War Books
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