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Thirty-one short stories, chosen and arranged by Dino Buzzati ‘in the hope of making the best of what I have written known’, make up this collection. Tales (the famous Il colombre, I sette messaggeri, Sette piani, Il mantello) in which disquieting allegories, surreal cues, and fantastic inventions coexist with news data, or presumed such, that seem to refer to possible metaphysical realities. The tale is in fact for Buzzati a moment of profound and emotional investigation in a magical atmosphere: few times in Italian literature has a writer explored so thoroughly the mystery surrounding man, the weaknesses and paradoxes that characterise him, his solitude, his experiences.