Parks, Tim (2012) [2000]. ”Introduction” (på engelska). The Tartar steppe. Canongate books. sid. xiii. ISBN 9781847677570. http://books.google.se/books?id=ibWWtYbiUXEC&pg=PR13. ”True, he flirts with symbolism and surrealism; true, his writing is suffused with a sense of life's absurdity; ... but the same is true of so many of his contemporaries – Calvino, Beckett and Thomas Mann, to name but three, all writers whose stories achieve verisimilitude precisely in their refusal to grant the drama we crave. What Buzzati does not share is the all-pervading paranoia that characterises Kafka's writing; as a result, the horror and humor that Buzzati evokes will, I suspect, prove more recognisable to the general reader than Kafka's, closer to the grain of common experience.”
