BooksDirect

Description - Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati

A pioneering graphic novel that relocates the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to a ghostly version of modern Milan by a luminary of the mid-twentieth-century Italian literary avant-garde

A New York Review Books Original

There's a certain street-via Saterna-in the middle of Milan that just doesn't show up on maps of the city. Orfi, a wildly successful young singer, lives there, and it's there that one night he sees his gorgeous girlfriend Eura disappear, "like a spirit," through a little door in the high wall that surrounds a mysterious mansion across the way. Where has Eura gone? Orfi will have to venture with his guitar across the borders of life and death to find out.

Featuring the Ashen Princess, the Line Inspector, trainloads of Devils, Trudy, Valentina, and the Talking Jacket, Poem Strip-a pathbreaking graphic novel from the 1960s-is a dark and alluring investigation into mysteries of love, lust, sex, and death by Dino Buzzati, a master of the Italian avant-garde.

Buy Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.

A Preview for this title is currently not available.
The Tartar Steppe
Paperback , Sep '18
20% OFF!
RRP: $24.99 $19.99
A Love Affair
Paperback , May '23
RRP: $45.00 $40.50
Catastrophe
Paperback , Mar '18
RRP: $50.12 $45.10
The Singularity
Paperback , Jun '24
RRP: $39.99 $35.99
The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
Paperback , May '21
RRP: $21.36 $19.22
Catastrophe and Other Stories
Paperback , Jun '18
RRP: $24.03 $21.62