Abstract
Imagination allowed Dino Buzzati to play with the readers' expectations, and to escape from stereotypes and conventions. It also allowed him to pay attention to the secret messages that nature seemed to send, and gave him a chance to interpret them. Imagination, finally, made it possible for Buzzati to create fictional worlds, more serene and just than the one in which he lived. In all these cases, imagination played a constructive part in Buzzati's work. There were, however, cases in which it led the writer to take the negative aspects of the world for granted, and provoked an excess of unjustified pessimism. Like everything else in his fiction, therefore, imagination had in Buzzati an ambiguous nature.
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