- Fiction, Portugal, fiction, Lisbon (portugal), fiction, Fiction, general
"Requiem's narrator has an appointment on a quay in Lisbon at twelve, and when that turns out to mean not noon but midnight, he has a long time to while away. As the day unfolds, he has many encounters: with a young junkie, a taxi driver who is not familiar with the streets, several waiters, a gypsy, a cemetery keeper, the mysterious Isabel, an accordionist - in all, almost two dozen people, both real and illusory.
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Prestige, nostalgic, contemplative and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Antonio Tabucchi
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 117
- Publisher
- New Directions Pub. Corp., Editions 10/18, New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Italian, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780002713269
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“I THOUGHT: the guy isn't going to turn up.”
Antonino Tabucchi (Pisa, 24 settembre 1943 – Lisbona, 25 marzo 2012) è stato uno scrittore, critico letterario, traduttore e lusista italiano, divulgatore della lingua e letteratura portoghese che insegnò dalla cattedra di cui era titolare all'Università di Siena. È ritenuto il maggior esperto di Fernando Pessoa, scrittore in ragione del quale Tabucchi apprese la lingua, grazie a Maria José de Lancastre, sua moglie, originaria del Portogallo. I suoi libri e saggi sono tradotti in circa venti lingue. Con sua moglie, ha tradotto in italiano molte delle opere di Fernando Pessoa e, su di esso, ha scritto anche un libro di saggi e una commedia teatrale. Ha ottenuto il premio francese Médicis étra
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