Buzzati's 'Il deserto dei Tartari' adapted into graphic novel by Pasquale Frisenda

Dino Buzzati's 1940 novel 'Il deserto dei Tartari' has been adapted into a graphic novel by artist Pasquale Frisenda and screenwriter Michele Medda, published by Sergio Bonelli Editore. The project began in 2019 and features hand-drawn ink illustrations with gray shading that evoke the novel's atmosphere of emptiness and waiting. The novel, ranked 29th on Le Monde's '100 Books of the Century' list, follows Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo stationed at Fortezza Bastiani, a remote outpost where he spends his life awaiting an enemy invasion that never comes. The adaptation condenses the main narrative into a sequence of manually crafted panels.