A panel from Poem Strip, a graphic novel by Dino Buzzati © 1969 the Estate of Dino Buzzati. Translation © 2009 Marina Harss
Discussed in this essay:
The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories, by Dino Buzzati. Translated by Lawrence Venuti. New York Review Books. 344 pages. $19.95.
The Stronghold, by Dino Buzzati. Translated by Lawrence Venuti. New York Review Books. 216 pages. $17.95.
In 1983, at the height of his international fame as the author of Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (1979), Italo Calvino published an anthology of nineteenth-century tales…
