The Tartar Steppe

The Tartar Steppe

The Tartar Steppe

Author: Dino Buzzati


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…

Dino Buzzati-Traverso (16 October 1906 – 28 January 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel Il deserto dei Tartari, translated into English as The Tartar Steppe, but he is also known for his well received collections of short stories.

Author(s)	Dino Buzzati
Language(s)	Armenian
Publisher(s)	VMV-print
Year	2013
Pages	168
Binding	paperback
ISBN	9789939601847