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The Tartar Steppe
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The Tartar Steppe (1940) (edit title/settings)

by Dino Buzzati (Author) (edit contributors)

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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. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni... read more

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The novel tells the story of a young officer, Giovanni Drogo, and his life spent guarding the Bastiani Fortress, an old, unmaintained border fortress. The plot of the novel is Drogo's lifelong wait for a great war in which his life and the existence of the fort can prove its usefulness. The... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

The novel tells the story of a young officer, Giovanni Drogo, and his life spent guarding the Bastiani Fortress, an old, unmaintained border fortress. The plot of the novel is Drogo's lifelong wait for a great war in which his life and the existence of the fort can prove its usefulness. The human need for giving life meaning and the soldier's desire for glory are themes in the novel. Drogo is posted to the remote outpost overlooking a desolate Tartar desert, spends his career waiting for the barbarian horde rumored to live beyond the desert. Without noticing, Drogo finds that in his watch over the fort he has let years and decades pass and that while his old friends in the city have had children, married and lived full lives, he has come away with nothing except solidarity with his fellow soldiers in their long, patient vigil.

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  • Giovanni Drogo: Young officer that was sent to the Bastiani Fortress.
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This is book 29 of 99 in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Ulysses, and followed by The Counterfeiters.

This is book 590 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Power and the Glory, and followed by Party Going.

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  1. Dino Buzzati (Author)

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Original Language: Italian
Publisher: Rizzoli, Milano
Country: Italy
Publication Date: 1940
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Page Count: 267

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