Overview
The collection of short stories that launched one of the key figures of twentieth-century Italian literature to fame A short story collection pivoting on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction- is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays a decisive role in the protagonists' lives? Set in Paris, Lisbon, Madras and New York and blended with the author's wonderfully intelligent imagination, Tabucchi reflects on the elemental aspects of the human experience, exploring grief, uncertainty, adventure, memory and love.
Full Product Details
Author: Antonio Tabucchi ,
Frances Frenaye
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 0.80cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.123kg
ISBN: 9780241519288
ISBN 10: 0241519284
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 July 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Language: English
Reviews
Tabucchi writes with what Italo Calvino, who shared the same translator, called ""quickness"" - an agility of mind and economy of narrative that pulls the reader along * Guardian * Elegant ... amusing ... the magic of language, artfully used ... Tabucchi manages to play simultaneously in the treble and in the bass * Los Angeles Times * Meticulously crafted stories marked by wit, emotion, memory and lost grandeur * Publishers Weekly *
Tabucchi writes with what Italo Calvino, who shared the same translator, called quickness - an agility of mind and economy of narrative that pulls the reader along * Guardian * Elegant ... amusing ... the magic of language, artfully used ... Tabucchi manages to play simultaneously in the treble and in the bass * Los Angeles Times * Meticulously crafted stories marked by wit, emotion, memory and lost grandeur * Publishers Weekly *
Author Information
Antonio Tabucchi (Author) Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa, Italy in 1943. His critically acclaimed novels and short story collections include Little Misunderstandings of No Importance, Requiem- A Hallucination and Pereira Maintains, which won the Premio Campiello, Premio Viareggio and the Aristeion Prize amongst others. Tabucchi was professor at the University of Siena, and also taught at Bard College in New York, the Ecole de Hautes Etudes and the Coll ge de France in Paris. He died in Lisbon, his adopted home, in 2012. Frances Frenaye (Translator) Frances Frenaye (1908-1996) was an American translator of French and Italian literary works. She won the Denyse Clairouin Memorial Award in 1951 for her translation of Georges Blond's The Plunderers and J.H.R Lenormand's Renee.
