English summary: Dino Buzzati was one of the creators of the modern Italian novel, one whose literary abilities also shined in his work as a war correspondent for the Corriere della Sera during World War II. From the imagined war of the Mongols, his first novel, to the real theater of naval battle on the Mediterranean, Buzzati chronicled with a unique eye the interminable waiting and sudden violence, the simple bravery of the seamen,...