K (original Title: It colombre ) is a collection of Nouvelle S written by Dino Buzzati, published for the first time in Italy in 1966 (Arnoldo Mondadori Editore), and in France in 1967 (Robert Laffont).

The history of K, which gives its title to the collection, contains all the familiar topics with Dino Buzzati, the author of the Désert of the Tartars, and defines perfectly an art where the marvellous one and humor mixes with the lucid observation with a control which the fifty other following accounts confirm.

An exacerbated sensitivity, an acute sense of justice, a certain pessimism also give a poignant resonance to the Compte , with the Petite Circé , the Elevator , the Veston bewitched , for example.

The fantastic one of Buzzati is narrowly granted to the air of our time and the concerns of the day: the world war, dictatorship, evil of youth and loneliness, as Chasseurs to old man , testify some the lesson of 1980 or Suicide with the park and the secret Arme.

The collection contains 50 news where are alternated worlds Fantastique S and distressed, characteristic of this author. A discrete Humor is present continuously, and is accompanied by the particular coloring - extreme sensitivity and immense respect for qualities of freshness of childhood - of Buzzati.

Topics of the Dead, the Illusion and the inflexible passage of the time, which bathed already the Desert of the Tartars are found there also often, including in the most unexpected contexts (Soft night).

Complete listing of the news

• K

• Creation

• the lesson of 1980
• Général unknown
• the late one by error
• humility
• And if?
• With Mister Directeur
• the secret weapon
• a turbid love?
• Poor little boy!
• the break-in foot
• the account
• Week-end
• the secrecy of the writer
• Petit stories of the evening
• Chasseurs of old man
• the egg
• Eighteenth hole
• the jacket bewitched
• the dog empties
• Douce night
• the Elevator
• the goings beyond
• Ubiquité
• the wind
• Teddy Boys
• the small balloon
• Suicide with the park
• the fall of the saint
• Esclave
• the tower Eiffel
• Young girl who falls… falls
• the magician
• the can
• the furnace bridge
• the bumps in the garden
• Petite Circé
• exhaustion
• Quiz with the forced labors
• Iago
• Progressions
• the two drivers
• Voyage to the hells of the century
• a difficult service
• secrecies of the " MM"
• the she-devils
• accelerations
• lonelinesses
• Fawn-coloured Entrümpelung
• at the wheel
• the garden

Catalog of films

the Desert of the Tartars (1976) of Valerio Zurlini. Producer: Jacques Perrin. Adaptation of the novel: Andre-G. Brunelin. With Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemmated, Helmut Griem, Philippe Noiret, Jacques perrin, Francisco Rabal Fernando Rey, Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Louis Trintigniant, MaxVon Sydow.

This film received in 1976, the Grand Prix of the French cinema.