{"product_id":"the-bewitched-bourgeois-fifty-stories","title":"The Bewitched Bourgeois : Fifty Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden ffmeta-font\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Twilight Zone\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eor \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein their chilling commentary on the barbarities, catastrophes, and fanaticisms of the twentieth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bewitched Bourgeois\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublis\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003ehed: USA, 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublish\u003cspan class=\"gmail_default\"\u003eer: New York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePages: 325\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781681378671\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dino Buzzati","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56628976255307,"sku":null,"price":22.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9781681378671.jpg?v=1772033124","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/the-bewitched-bourgeois-fifty-stories","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}