Antonio Tabucchi

A metaphysical detective story about love and existence. When Tadeus sets out to find Isabel, his former love, he soon finds himself on a metaphysical journey across the world, one that calls into question the meaning of time and existence and the power of words. Isabel disappeared many years ago. Tadeus Slowacki, a Polish writer, her former friend and lover, has come back to Lisbon to learn of her whereabouts. Rumors abound: Isabel died in prison under Salazar's regime, or perhaps wasn't arrested at all. As Tadeus interviews one old acquaintance of hers after the next, a chameleon-like portrait of a young, ideological woman emerges, ultimately bringing Tadeus on a metaphysical journey across the continent. Constructed in the form of a mandala, For Isabel is the spiraling search for an enigma, an investigation into time and existence, the power of words, and the limits of the senses. In this posthumous work Tabucchi creates an ingenious narration, tracing circles around a lost woman and the ultimate inaccessible truth.

"In Dreams of Dreams, a delightful variation on exemplary "lives," Antonio Tabucchi imagines the dreams of twenty artists he has loved, among them Ovid and Rimbaud, Chekhov and Debussy, Goya and Garcia Lorca.". "The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa finds the poet on his deathbed, where he is visited by his heteronyms, the poets he invented, whose poetry and voices invented him. Antonio Tabucchi, scholar and Italian translator of Pessoa's work, here pronounces a farewell to a man who was several of the greatest writers of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

While Andi is visiting her old hometown of Coral Point, Florida, for spring break a German shepherd disappears off the beach and fish begin to vanish from their tanks at the town's new SeaLife Center.

Sostiene Pereira: Una testimonianza è un romanzo di Antonio Tabucchi, pubblicato da Feltrinelli nel 1994. Ambientato nel 1938, la storia racconta di Pereira, un giornalista di mezz'età che gestisce la pagina culturale di un quotidiano di Lisbona, descrivendo la sua progressiva presa di posizione contro la dittatura salazarista, dibattuto tra la sua coscienza e le restrizioni imposte dal regime.

As the collection's title suggests, time's passage is the fil rouge of these stories. All of Tabucchi's characters struggle to find routes of escape from a present that is hard to bear, and from places in which political events have had deeply personal ramifications for their own lives.

En Toscane, le vieux Tristano se meurt d'une gangrène et supporte la douleur grâce à la morphine. Frau Renate veille sur lui depuis toujours et le soigne. Il fait venir un écrivain pour lui demander de transcrire le récit de sa vie, et commence par une journée en Grèce pendant la guerre. Selon lui, la vie est un mystère, et non la mort. Réflexion sur les notions d'héroïsme et de trahison.

Siete escritores y un fotógrafo viajan por las fronteras del mundo conocido y nos cuentan, cada cual a su manera, una parte de la realidad de nuestro tiempo. Los gitanos en el corazón de Europa, los caminos del dinero, la búsqueda de la tumba de Frantz Fanon por el desierto argelino, transitado por las huellas del poeta chino Li Tai Po, El Cairo, Terranova, Australia, La Antártida, y una temporada en El Congo.

"It is a sultry August at the very end of the twentieth century, and Tristano is dying. A hero of the Italian Resistance, Tristano has called a writer to his bedside to listen to his life story, though, really, 'you don't tell a life... you live a life, and whole you're living it, it's already lost, has slipped away.' Tristano Dies, one of Antonio Tabucchi's major novels, is a vibrant consideration of love, war, devotion, betrayal, and the instability of the past, of storytelling, and what it means to be a hero."--