With obvious affinities to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is a serener and more immediately rewarding book * * The Times * * It is not often that a masterpiece falls into one's hands. But The Tartar Steppe is undoubtedly a masterpiece, a sublime book and Buzzati a master of the written word -- John Keegan * * Sunday Times * * A beautiful, masterly novel that shimmers like a mirage, bringing into sharp focus the rise and fall of our ambitions and the pitiless erosion of time. It is the story of one Giovanni Drogo - yet how many of us will be stricken to recognise something of ourselves in him? -- Yann Martel The Tartar Steppe is a nightmare, a comedy of errors, a beautiful and anguished fable, a call to resistance against folly, the inspired assurance that one last act may justify our lifelong struggle to remain human -- Alberto Manguel There are names that the coming generations will not resign themselves to forget. Surely one of them is that of Dino Buzzati -- Jose Luis Borges A strange and haunting novel, an eccentric classic -- J.M. Coetzee
DINO BUZZATI (1906-1972) was an Italian editor, novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer. He has been lauded as one of Europe's foremost experimental writers of the twentieth century.