Sessanta racconti

Sessanta racconti ("sixty stories") is a 1958 short story collection by the Italian writer Dino Buzzati. The first 36 stories had been published previously, while the rest were new. Subjects covered include the horror and surreality of life in a modern city, the existential aspects of advanced technology, metaphysical ideas as well as fantasy realms. The book received the Strega Prize.
Publication.
"Sessanta racconti" was published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in 1958. It contains stories from the three previous collections "The Seven Messengers" (1942), "The Scala Scare" (1949) and "The Collapse of the Baliverna" (1957), as well as previously unpublished stories.