Barnabo of the Mountains (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Dino Buzzati Traverso
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Work: Psychological parable
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: The mountains around the village of San Nicola in northern Italy and a farm in the valley
- Principal Characters: Barnabo, Berton, Other Forest-Guards
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Parable
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Fear, Robbery or robbers, Forests or forestry, Italy or Italians, Mountains, Explosions or explosives
- Locales: Italy
The Novel
Barnabo of the Mountains follows the experience of one man, in his relationship with the forbidding but fascinating mountains, through a crisis of honor and cowardice in the course of carrying out his duties as a forest-guard, and his subsequent deeply felt need to prove and redeem himself. Dino Buzzati openly acknowledged the influence of other writers, among them Joseph Conrad, especially Conrad’s Lord Jim (1900). This influence is particularly strong in Barnabo of the Mountains, in the theme of redemption and in the relationship of...
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