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4.3/5 Goodreads Country Italy Publication date 1958 Originally published 1958 Page count 566 Awards Strega Prize | 4.6/5 Ibs 4.3/5 aNobii Language Italian Pages 566 Publisher Arnoldo Mondadori Editore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sessanta racconti ("sixty stories") is a 1958 short story collection by the Italian writer Dino Buzzati. The first 36 stories had been published previously, while the rest were new. Subjects covered include the horror and surreality of life in a modern city, the existential aspects of advanced technology and metaphysical ideas. The book received the Strega Prize.
Publication
Sessanta racconti was published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in 1958. It contains stories from the three previous collections The Seven Messengers (1942), The Scala Scare (1949) and The Collapse of the Baliverna (1957), as well as previously unpublished stories.
References
Sessanta racconti Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA