Tag Archives: Dino Buzzati

Review: The Singularity by Dino Buzzati

translated by Anne Milano Appel original publication (in Italian): 1960 first English edition: 1962, Secker & Warburg (titled Larger Than Life) this edition: 2024, NYRB Classics 136 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library *spoilers* Not until a third of the way through this short, dark, mysterious novel do

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Out This Month: May

“Renting to Killers” by Elena Pavlova, translated from the Bulgarian by the author and Kalin M. Nenov (Asimov’s, May/June) Woodworm by Layla Martinez, translated from the Spanish (Spain) by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott (Two Lines Press, May 14) The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that

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Review: Catastrophe by Dino Buzzati

translated by Judith Landry Ecco (Harper Collins) March 27, 2018 (most of the stories- originally 1965) 240 pages grab a copy Contents: “The Collapse of the Baliverna” “Catastrophe” “The Epidemic” “The Landslide” “Just the Very Thing They Wanted” “Oversight” “The Monster” “Seven Floors” “The March of Time” “The Alarming Revenge of a Domestic Pet” “And

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