A review by zmorgason
Restless Nights by Dino Buzzati

dark funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

Secret obsessions, a destructive fixation. It's absurd to maintain the faith in an absurd world, but the straight path is the fastest route through the desert. Hope and doubt, sin and virtue, exaltation and despair, all become one along life's long continuum of experiences. I'm usually a bit cool on short fiction anthologies, but between Buzzati's fantastical worlds and Venuti's brilliant selection and translation, I fell deep into the folds of nearly every one, a total triumph of the form.