{"product_id":"the-bewitched-bourgeois-fifty-stories-paperback","title":"The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDino Buzzati\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLawrence Venuti\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eLawrence Venuti\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoe and Kafka meet \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone\u003c\/i\u003e in this anthology of fifty fantastical tales, many of them reflecting the political and social energies of the time, by an Italian master of the short story.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDino Buzzati was a prolific writer of stories, publishing several hundred over the course of forty years. Many of them are fantastic--reminiscent of Kafka and Poe in their mixture of horror and absurdity, and at the same time anticipating the alternate realities of \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e in their chilling commentary on the barbarities, catastrophes, and fanaticisms of the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Bewitched Bourgeois\u003c\/i\u003e, Lawrence Venuti has put together an anthology that showcases Buzzati's short fiction from his earliest stories to the ones he wrote in the last months of his life. Some appear in English for the first time, while others are reappearing in Venuti's crisp new versions, such as the much-anthologized \"Seven Floors,\" an absurdist tale of a patient fatally caught in hospital bureaucracy; \"Panic at La Scala,\" in which the Milanese bourgeoisie, fearing a left-wing revolution, find themselves imprisoned in the opera house; and \"Appointment with Einstein,\" where the physicist, stopping at a filling station in Princeton, New Jersey, encounters a gas station attendant who turns out to be the Angel of Death.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDino Buzzati \u003c\/b\u003e(1906-1972) studied law at the University of Milan and, at the age of twenty-two, went to work for the daily newspaper \u003ci\u003eCorriere della Sera\u003c\/i\u003e, where he remained for the rest of his life. He served in World War II as a journalist connected to the Italian navy and on his return published the book for which he is most famous, \u003ci\u003eThe Stronghold\u003c\/i\u003e (NYRB Classics). A gifted artist as well as writer, Buzzati was the author of five novels and numerous short stories, as well as a popular children's book, \u003ci\u003eThe Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLawrence Venuti\u003c\/b\u003e, professor emeritus of English at Temple University, is a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan, as well as a translation theorist and historian. He is, most recently, the author of \u003ci\u003eContra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic\u003c\/i\u003e, the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Translation Studies Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, and the translator of J. V. Foix's \u003ci\u003eDaybook 1918: Early Fragments\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Global Humanities Translation Prize at Northwestern University. He translated Buzzati's \u003ci\u003eThe Stronghold\u003c\/i\u003e for NYRB Classics.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.1 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378628849766,"sku":"9781681378671","price":27.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Cu1-ScfDhl9781681378671.webp?v=1768907421","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-bewitched-bourgeois-fifty-stories-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}