Catastrophe: The Strange Stories of Dino Buzzati

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Catastrophe: The Strange Stories of Dino Buzzati

short stories by Buzzati

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In Dino Buzzati
…some of his stories include Catastrophe: The Strange Stories of Dino Buzzati (1966), Restless Nights (1983), and The Bewitched Bourgeois (2025). Cronache terrestri (1972; “Earthly Chronicles”) and an autobiography (1973) were published posthumously.
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