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The Tartar Steppe
First UK edition (publ. Secker & Warburg, 1952)
Author
Dino Buzzati
Original title
Il deserto dei Tartari
Country
Italy
Language
Italian
Publisher
Rizzoli
Publication date
1940
The Tartar Steppe (Italian: Il deserto dei Tartari, lit. 'The desert of the Tartars'), also published as The Stronghold (La fortezza),[1][2] is a novel by Italian author Dino Buzzati, published in 1940.[3]
The novel tells the story of a young officer, Giovanni Drogo, and his life spent guarding the Bastiani Fortress, an old, unmaintained border fortress. The work was influenced by the 1904 poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" by Constantine P. Cavafy.
Stuart C. Hood translated the novel into English.[4][5] The novel was ranked 29th on Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century list.
^Ziolkowski, Saskia Elizabeth (2020). Kafka’s Italian Progeny. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4875-0630-8.
^"The Stronghold". New York Review Books. Retrieved 2022-07-31.
^"Dino Buzzati | Italian author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
^Buzzati, Dino (1952). Il deserto dei Tartari [The Tartar Steppe]. Translated by Hood, Stuart C. (1st UK ed.). London: Secker & Warburg. OCLC 753066501.
^Buzzati, Dino (1952). Il deserto dei Tartari [The Tartar Steppe]. Translated by Hood, Stuart C. (1st US ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus and Young. OCLC 1628732.
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