The Tartar Steppe
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The Tartar Steppe (Il deserto dei Tartari) is a novel written by Dino Buzzati in 1940, which focuses on the story of a young officer, Giovanni Drogo, who is assigned to serve militarily in the Bastiani Fortress, a decadent, little-used border fortress. In the nearby desert supposedly live the Tartars.
South African-born novelist J.M. Coetzee used Tartar Steppe's plot to write his 1980 masterpiece, Waiting for the Barbarians, whose title he borrowed from Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy's poem of the same name.
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