The Tartar Steppe
 

The Tartar Steppe

by Dino Buzzati, Stuart Clink Hood

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 suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others'... (read more)

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Giovanni Drogo, a young officer with hopes of battlefield glory is stationed at a remote fort overlooking the vast Tartar Steppe. Discovering too late that military life at the fort is little more than absurd rules & regulations he seeks to be re-assigned only to find himself trapped. Drogo waits out the years but will a final chance at glory arrive before it's too late? What exactly, is a soldier without a war? What is a person who waits for a life that never comes? Particularly powerful are...

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  • Mike L

    mike l said:

    fyi: Buzzati was born in the Dolomites. There's even a via ferrata named in honor of him.

    posted Monday, March 31 2008
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