Dino Buzzati
Dino Buzzati-Traverso (14 October 1906 – 28 January 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter, poet, and a journalist.
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[edit]The Tartar Steppe (1940)
[edit]- Original Italian from 1945 edition from w:Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (OL772990M Internet Archive), English translation by w:Stuart C. Hood 1995 edition from w:David R. Godine Publisher (ISBN 0-87923-992-1 OL1426248M Internet Archive).
- allora io rischio di restare lassù tutta la vita
- then I run the risk of staying up there all my life.
- Chapter 20 (p.166) (Hood p.137).
- By Giovanni Drogo (protagonist).
- Quassù è un po' come in esilio, bisogna pure trovare una specie di sfogo, bisogna ben sperare in qualche cosa. Ha cominciato uno a mettersi in mente, si sono messi a parlare dei Tartari, chissà chi è stato il primo...
- It's a bit complicated. It's a kind of exile up here -- but you have to find some sort of outlet, you have to hope for something. Someone began thinking about it, then they began to talk about Tartars -- who knows who was the first?
- Chapter 21 (p.172) (Hood p.144).
- By Major Ortiz (Originally Captain Ortiz).
