{"product_id":"the-bewitched-bourgeois-isbn-9781681378671","title":"The Bewitched Bourgeois","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\"Buzzati’s short-form fiction seems perfectly suited to our time of TikToks, tweets and online attention spans…. Pick up this book, and read one story each week…. Recreate the experience of those Italian newspaper readers who got to experience Buzzati’s seductive skills regularly. One at a time is enough because the stories are so tightly packed they continue to unfold in your mind after you finish. With 50 stories here, they will last you almost a year. Then you can go back to the beginning and start again.\" —John Self, \u003ci\u003eThe Times (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thanks to Venuti’s keen editorial eye and crisp translation, this stands as a brilliant record of Buzzati’s playful experimentation and lifelong obsessions.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These marvelous stories inhabit a bewitched space. Borges and Poe are evident, but more importantly Buzzati’s alchemical blend of the known world and some other, invading realm looks forward to the time of Stephen King, and Robert Aickman, and Shirley Jackson. These are tales that stick to your ribs.” —John Darnielle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There are very few writers whose stories feel so unique and original that you can’t imagine anyone else writing them. Lawrence Venuti’s deft translation of these fifty stories makes it clear that Buzzati is one of these few. Smart, quirky, buoyant and wonderfully absurd, Buzzati is the missing link between Kafka and twenty-first-century fabulism.” —Brian Evenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thanks to Venuti’s keen editorial eye and crisp translation, this stands as a brilliant record of Buzzati’s playful experimentation and lifelong obsessions.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Buzzati was adamant in proving how permeable the barrier is between the hard-and-fast and the highly unlikely. Readers taken with the quixotic byways of 20th-century literature should welcome \u003ci\u003eThe Bewitched Bourgeois \u003c\/i\u003eas a necessary addition to their libraries.\" —Mario Naves, \u003ci\u003eThe Sun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Buzzati uncovers the cracks in the facade of reality and shows the consequences of a world from which humans have foolishly banned imagination. He does so by using a variety of fantastic modes and genres: allegory, fairy tale, horror, gothic, the occult, the absurd, science fiction, even dystopian fiction.\" —Valentina Polcini, \u003ci\u003eLARB\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304112115941,"sku":"NP9781681378671","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681378671.jpg?v=1767738349","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-bewitched-bourgeois-isbn-9781681378671","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}