Folio: Requiem (Series #A33805) (Paperback)

from jonfaith

Much of this novella reads like a sweaty daydream, a grumbling escape from a missed connection: the lament over an object left behind. The plot is anything but simple. A very Tabucchi like figure has a date with destiny, in this case the spirit of Pessoa. Apparently our protagonist didn't trouble...

from jonfaith

Much of this novella reads like a sweaty daydream, a grumbling escape from a missed connection: the lament over an object left behind. The plot is anything but simple. A very Tabucchi like figure has a date with destiny, in this case the spirit of Pessoa. Apparently our protagonist didn't trouble...

from antao

The Emptiness of Literature: "Requiem - A Hallucination" by Antonio Tabucchi, Margaret Jull Costa (translator) "Were someone to ask me why I wrote this story in Portuguese, I would answer simply that a story like this could only be written in Portuguese; it's as simple as that. But there is somet...

from jon1lambert

Fascinating book written by an Italian in Portuguese and translated into French and to an extent about voice, intonation and interpretation of language. Also it is partly hallucination, partly dream, partly autobiography as the narrator meets people he has met and who have died. The most poignant...

from antao

The Emptiness of Literature: "Requiem - A Hallucination" by Antonio Tabucchi, Margaret Jull Costa (translator) "Were someone to ask me why I wrote this story in Portuguese, I would answer simply that a story like this could only be written in Portuguese; it's as simple as that. But there is somet...