Antonio Tabucchi





Antonio Tabucchi

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born
September 23, 1943 in Pisa, Italy

died
March 25, 2012

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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.


Average rating: 3.83 · 2,255 ratings · 212 reviews · 55 distinct works
Sostiene Pereira
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Requiem: A Hallucination
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میدان ایتالیا
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1985 — 16 editions
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Tristano muore: una vita
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Sogni di sogni
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions
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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

“I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.”
Antonio Tabucchi

“A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon.

Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.”
Antonio Tabucchi

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