Antonio Tabucchi

Primeiro inédito publicado após a morte do autor. Como definir uma história como esta? À primeira vista poderia parecer um romance fantástico, mas talvez fuja a todas as definições possíveis. Antonio Tabucchi deu-lhe um subtítulo: «um mandala», mas na realidade, segundo critérios ocidentais, trata-se afinal de uma investigação, uma busca que parece conduzida por um Philip Marlowe metafísico. Mas à metafísica, nesta investigação...

"In Dreams of Dreams, a delightful variation on exemplary "lives," Antonio Tabucchi imagines the dreams of twenty artists he has loved, among them Ovid and Rimbaud, Chekhov and Debussy, Goya and Garcia Lorca." "The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa finds the poet on his deathbed, where he is visited by his heteronyms, the poets he invented, whose poetry and voices invented him. Antonio Tabucchi, scholar and Italian translator of Pessoa's work, here...

As the collection's title suggests, time's passage is the fil rouge of these stories. All of Tabucchi's characters struggle to find routes of escape from a present that is hard to bear, and from places in which political events have had deeply personal ramifications for their own lives.

"It is a sultry August at the very end of the twentieth century, and Tristano is dying. A hero of the Italian Resistance, Tristano has called a writer to his bedside to listen to his life story, though, really, 'you don't tell a life... you live a life, and whole you're living it, it's already lost, has slipped away.' Tristano Dies, one of Antonio Tabucchi's major novels, is a vibrant consideration of love, war, devotion, betrayal, and the instability...