Antonio Tabucchi





Antonio Tabucchi

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born
in Pisa, Italy
September 23, 1943

died
March 25, 2012

gender
male

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Antonio Tabucchi is an Italian writer and academic who teaches Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy.

Deeply in love with Portugal, he is an expert, critic and translator of the works of the writer Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronomouses. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that, back in Italy, he attended a course of Portuguese language for a better comprehension of the poet.


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More books by Antonio Tabucchi…
“Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion.
...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.”
Antonio Tabucchi, Dreams of Dreams and the Last Three Days of Fernan

“Le persone sono lontane quando ci stanno accanto,
figurarsi quando sono lontane davvero.”
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“I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.”
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