- Soldiers, Fiction, Fiction, war & military, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
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.
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Contemplative, grave, prestige and bleak.
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- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Dino Buzzati
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 214
- Publisher
- Carcanet, D.R. Godine, Secker & Warburg
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780856355769
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