What I’m Reading: The Tartar Steppe

It’s odd, I don’t know where this book came from. Just showed up in our house one day, so I started reading it. I’m glad I did. The Tartar Steppe, by Dini Buzzati, turns out to be quite an interesting book. Somewhat forgotten today, at least in the English-speaking countries, this was apparently considered an important literary work in Europe when it was published in 1938.

If follows Giovanni Drogo, a young officer who’s just received his commission and learned of his first assignment: Fort B...