Il colombre

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Il colombre
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First edition
Author Dino Buzzati
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
Publisher Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
Publication date
1966
Pages451

Il colombre is a 1966 short story collection by the Italian writer Dino Buzzati. The titular story introduces a sea monster called the colomber, which became the most famous of Buzzati's monster characters. [1]

Contents

Stories

  1. Il colombre: storia non vera
  2. La creazione
  3. La lezione del 1980
  4. Generale ignoto
  5. L'erroneo fu
  6. L'umiltà
  7. E se?
  8. Riservatissima al signor direttore
  9. L'arma segreta
  10. Un torbido amore
  11. Povero bambino!
  12. Il seccatore
  13. Il conto
  14. Week-end
  15. Il segreto dello scrittore
  16. Storielle della sera
  17. Cacciatori di vecchi
  18. L'uovo
  19. Diciottesima buca
  20. La giacca stregata
  21. Il cane vuoto
  22. Dolce notte
  23. L'ascensore
  24. I sorpassi
  25. L'ubiquo
  26. Il vento
  27. Teddy boys
  28. Il palloncino
  29. Suicidio al parco
  30. Il crollo del santo
  31. Schiavo
  32. La torre Eiffel
  33. Ragazza che precipita
  34. Il mago
  35. La barattola
  36. L'altare
  37. Le gobbe in giardino
  38. Piccola Circe
  39. Il logorio
  40. Quiz all'ergastolo
  41. Jago
  42. Progressioni
  43. I due autisti

Viaggio agli inferni del secolo

  1. I - Un servizio difficile
  2. II - I segreti della <<MM>>
  3. III - Le diavolesse
  4. IV - Le accelerazioni
  5. V - Le solitudini
  6. VI - L'Entrümpelung
  7. VII - Belva al volante
  8. VIII - Il giardino

Publication

The collection was published in Italy in 1966 through Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. It has not been published in English in its entirety, but some of the stories, including "Colomber", have been translated by Lawrence Venuti and appear in the 1984 volume Restless Nights: Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati. [2]

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References

  1. Polcini, Valentina (2014). Dino Buzzati and Anglo-American Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 107–108. ISBN   978-1-4438-5947-9.
  2. Restless nights : selected stories of Dino Buzzati. OCLC   9813062 . Retrieved 2015-06-14 via WorldCat.