![]() ![]() Buzzati uses fantasy to allow his characters a bit of release from the everday world. ![]() Kafka often used fantasy in a negative way-to emphasize the dehumanizing nature of modern life. Generally speaking if you categorize Buzzati he would fit in with Kafka or Camus or Borges and if you are familiar with those writers and you come to Buzzati you will be reminded in subtle ways of those others but you will also notice important differences. He might be compared to Kafka but Buzzati writes like no one else. Even though they are each very short the stories are impossible to paraphrase because Buzzati chooses each phrase so carefully that paraphrasing would be misrepresenting his stories. And that is Buzzati's style: to make the extraordinary sound ordinary. His stories are quite often no more than 4-5 pages long and even though his stories often veer into the uncharted terrain of human desire and fantasy you feel like you are reading a newspaper article and so the events and the characters actions seem perfectly plausible, perfectly within the realm of the possible, even ordinary. Buzzati was a journalist and so he writes very succinct sentences which have a matter of fact feel to them. I looked at the map, but there was no city of Anagoor." Thus begins Dino Buzzati's "Walls of Anagoor". "Deep inside Tibet a native guide offered to accompany me if by chance I wanted to see the walls of the city of Anagoor. ![]()
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