A Love Affair
$39.53
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
20 June 2023
Summary
Accomplished in his career but unaccomplished in love, a middle-aged architect is torn apart by his obsession with an enigmatic young woman in this delicately told story of desire and abjection by a titan of Italian literature.
Antonio Dorigo is a successful architect in Milan, nearing fifty, who has always been afraid of women. A regular at an upscale brothel for years, he mourns the lack of close female companionship in his life. One afternoon, the madam at the brothel introduces To…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681377124 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681377128 |
| Author: | Dino Buzzati, Joseph Green |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 20 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 128mm |
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Critics Review
“I discovered the bard of nervousness last week, and I confess I feel a bit nervous about recommending him… . [Buzzati’s stories] portray delicate psychologies, and are themselves psychologically delicate, full of premonitions and subtle turns… . Buzzati’s prose can have a hard brightness, like the glazed eyes of a fever patient.” —Katy Waldman, The New Yorker
“What is to be procured here? Excitation certainly, but also a respect for the expertise with which this dossier of that sexual deadlock, a little more than lust, a little less than love, is handled.” —Kirkus Reviews
About The Author
Dino Buzzati
Dino Buzzati (1906-1972) was an Italian journalist, artist, and author. A gifted artist as well as writer, Buzzati was the author of five novels, numerous short stories and poems, a children’s book, and a comic book, Poem Strip.
Joseph Green was a translator of Italian literature.
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