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.

"In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century Italian literature, a modest university professor becomes involved in a remote and enigmatic project in the middle of the Cold War. At the beginning of Dino Buzzati's The Singularity, Ermanno Ismani, an unassuming university professor, is summoned by the minister of defense to accept a two-year, top-secret mission at a mysterious research center, isolated from the world among forests, plunging cliffs, and high mountains. What's he supposed to do there? Not clear. How long will he be there? No saying. Still, Ismani takes the mystifying job and, accompanied by his no-nonsense wife, Elisa, heads to the so-called Experimental Camp of Military Zone 36, wondering whether, in the midst of the Cold War, it's some sort of nuclear project he's been assigned to. But no, the colleagues the couple meets on arrival assure them, it's nothing like that. It's much, much more powerful. At the center of the research complex is a strange, shining, at times murmurous, white wall. Behind it, a deep gorge drops away, full of wires and radio towers and mobile sensors and a host of eccentric structures. A question begins to dawn: Could this be the shape of consciousness itself? And if so, whose? Buzzati's novella of 1960, a pioneering work of Italian science fiction, is published here in a brisk new translation by Anne Milano Appel. In it, Buzzati explores his favorite themes of love and longing while offering a startlingly prescient parable of artificial intelligence"--

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.

A New York Review Books Original There's a certain street—via Saterna—in the middle of Milan that just doesn't show up on maps of the city. Orfi, a wildly successful young singer, lives there, and it's there that one night he sees his gorgeous girlfriend Eura disappear, "like a spirit,” through a little door in the high wall that surrounds a mysterious mansion across the way. Where has Eura gone? Orfi will have to venture with his guitar across the borders of life and death to find out.Featuring the Ashen Princess, the Line Inspector, trainloads of Devils, Trudy, Valentina, and the Talking Jacket, Poem Strip—a pathbreaking graphic novel from the 1960s—is a dark and alluring investigation into mysteries of love, lust, sex, and death by Dino Buzzati, a master of the Italian avant-garde.

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