# The Tartar Steppe (Book) Created On: 08-07-2025 07:20 pm --- # ℹ️ Information **Author**:: [[Dino Buzzati]] **Category**:: [[Fiction (Book)]] **Series**:: **Tags**:: #note/literature📖 **Pages**:: **Hours**:: 7 **Status**:: Reading **Progress**:: 5% **Started Date**:: [[2025-08-07]] **Finished Date**:: **Times Read**:: 0 **Rating**:: --- # 🏔️ What It's About # 🧠 Overall Thoughts ## 👍 What I Liked - ## 👎 What I Didn't Like - # ☘️ How the Book Changed Me %% How my life / behavior / thoughts / ideas have changed as a result of reading the book. %% # 🤝 Who Should Read It? # ✍️ My Top 3 Quotes > --- # Notes - Introduction - “\[Leopardi] was obsessed by the role of hope in human life, a hope he remorselessly exposed as the product of illusion, yet saw, and occasionally celebrated, as ever ready to flower again even in the most barren places, the most unexpected forms. This incorrigible inclination to hope, Leopardi felt, was both the curse and salvation of the race: it guaranteed that the defining experience of human life would be disappointment, and allowed us to press on regardless” - Chapter 1 - Francesco Vescovi - Drogo’s friend - as a symbol of kindred friendship that fades? - Drogo’s first encounter with the fort: “but everything, the ramparts, the very landscape, breathed an inhospitable and sinister air.” - The allusion feels a steep “coming of age”, but late-stage, like 18+; experiencing the world, unfettered and with total autonomy, for the first time… - It breathes an air of excitement, yet feels gusted by disappointment; we dream a big dream, spin extraordinary internal narratives of the future, yet rapidly unravel the holes in that tapestry of that reality. - A sort of rebase of reality. - [[What was once new becomes novel]] - Why the “false” fort before arriving to the true one? 🤔 - Chapter 2 -