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Giorgio bassani and antonio tabucchi, critical essay by italica. He was professor of portuguese literature at the university of siena and the italian cultural institute in lisbon. Tabucchis fertile and offbeat imagination ranges over a broad spectrum of themesfamily, aging, war, travelalways approached obliquely, teasing, engaging, and above all rewarding the reader. Antonio tabucchi was an italian writer and academic who taught portuguese language and literature at the university of siena, italy. Pereira maintains by antonio tabucchi ebook 9781847679642 published by canongate 4 november 2010. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Its story follows pereira, a journalist for the culture column of a small lisbon newspaper, as he struggles with his conscience and the restrictions of the fascist regime of antonio salazar. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Antonio tabucchi s novel about a newspaper editor in 1930s portugal is a passionate warning against political complacency the guardian the power of this slim book is inversely proportional to its size and modest, unassuming tone the independent it is a novel that is a long conversationwith itself and with other novels too jeannette winterson. A metaphysical detective story about love and existence from the italian master, antonio tabucchi.
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I read this in a portuguese translation from the italian more than ten years ago, if memory serves me right, i havent come across anything quite like it and i still have a place in my heart for portly, perspiring pereira with his omelets and his quiet, but subversive, decency. Written by antonio tabucchi, audiobook narrated by sergio rubini. Antonio tabucchi, carlos gumpert translator, xavier gonzalez rovira translator 4. Set in portugal in 1938, tabucchi s tale, originally written in italian, is the story of an overweight, fading, and ill newspaper reporter now editing the culture page of a mediocre lisbon newspaper who befriends, and then helps, a young writer with. A fat portuguese became an italian hero, the author summed up, smiling.
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