The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati Ine Willems De reis is een aaneenschakeling

De reis is een aaneenschakeling van tegenslagen: treinen rijden niet

intelligent and moving

distant fireworks

hadden eindelijk de erkenning gekregen waar Svevo zo lang op gewacht had

maar vertelt over een Belgische paleizenbouwer in Medellín

The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati Ine Willems De reis is een aaneenschakelingIdealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by veteran soldiers who have grown old without seeing a trace of the enemy. As his length of service stretches from months into years, he continues to wait patiently for the enemy to advance across the desert,