Skip to content

In the canon

The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1940
Originally in
Originally in Italian
Pages
Pages 200

A young officer posts to a remote frontier fortress to await a glorious battle, and waits there his entire life for an enemy who arrives only when it is too late for him.

Perhaps this was the good fortune that other men vainly sought throughout the whole world.
The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati

The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.

Around it

The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati · The Daily Canon