Dino Buzzati
A Love Affair
- New York Review of Books
- 2023
- Taschenbuch
- 248 Seiten
- ISBN 9781681377124
Accomplished in his career but unaccomplished in love, a middle-aged architect is torn apart by his obsession with an enigmatic young woman in this delicately told story of desire and abjection by a titan of Italian literature. Antonio Dorigi is a successful architect in Milan, nearing fifty, who has always been afraid of women. He has been a regular at an upscale brothel for years, even as he mourns the lack of close female companionship in his life. One afternoon, the madam at the brothel introduces Tonio to "a new girl," Laide (short for Adelaide). Tonio sees nothing especially remarkable about Laide, though it intrigues him that she
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