Antonio Tabucchi, Author, J. C. Patrick, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $23.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1393-6
As in his previous novel, the 1994 international bestseller Pereira Declares, Tabucchi, professor of Portuguese literature at the University of Siena in Italy, explores Portugal's politics and culture through the eyes of a journalist. This time his...
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Antonio Tabucchi, trans. from the Italian
by Martha Cooley and Antonio Romani. Archipelago (Random, dist.), $16 trade paper (212p) ISBN 978-0-914671-05-3
In this collection of short stories, the late Tabucchi (The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico) plays with philosophical themes such as the circularity of memory and time, depicting characters who struggle to preserve voices they can no longer hear...
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Antonio Tabucchi, trans. from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris. Archipelago (Random, dist.). $18 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-0-914671-24-4
Tabucchi's unsatisfying short novel is built on flashbacks and digressions inside digressions. Italian ex-soldier Tristano contemplates the nature of life and death on (where else?) his deathbed. As he looks back on his old life, he remembers...
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Antonio Tabucchi, Author, Nancy J. Peters, Translator City Lights Books $10.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-87286-368-2
Elaborately imagined, though often straining for effect, popular Italian novelist Tabucchi's (Pereira Declares) new offering is both a mini-catalogue of great artists' dreams and the author's interpretation of the last three days in the life of...
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Antonio Tabucchi, Author, Margaret Jull Costa, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $15.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1270-0
On a sweltering Sunday in July, an Italian writer awaits a midnight rendezvous on a Lisbon quay with the spirit of a dead poet. The nameless narrator of this surreal dreamscape, who anxiously anticipates the appearance of his deceased friend and...
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Antonio Tabucchi, Author, Patrick Creagh, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $11.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1358-5
This chronicle of a curmudgeonly Italian journalist's reluctant awakening to the stirrings of Fascism received a starred review in PW. (June)
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Antonio Tabucchi, Author, Patrick Creagh, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1319-6
Set in the sweltering summer of 1938 in Portugal, a country under the Fascist shadow of its neighbor, Spain, Italian author Tabucchi's movingly restrained novel tells a tale of quiet, reluctant heroism. Dr. Peirera, the overweight, middle-aged...
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Antonio Tabucchi, Author, Alastair McEwen, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Alistair McEwan. New Directions $15.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1546-6
This epistolary novel is composed of 18 love letters; the fictional authors are 17 men and one woman, whose sweeping, summative voice closes the collection abruptly. Are all the letters addressed to her? Does she even exist? There are no names—
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Antonio Tabucchi, Author, Frances Frenaye, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $11.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1029-4
The author's opening note admits his fascination with ""uncertainties, belated understandings, useless remorse, treacherous memories.'' Such are the ambiguous situations that inform these 11 pleasantly brooding tales. Translated from the Italian of...
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Antonio Tabucchi, Author, Tim Parks, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $14.95 (83p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1112-3
Tabucchi's fourth work to be translated into English functions as both a surrealistic mystery novel and a philosophical inquiry into the nature of existence. But muddy writing and a badly conceptualized story line prevents it from realizing that...
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Antonio Tabucchi, trans. from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris. Archipelago (PRH, dist.), $16 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-914671-80-0
"Private obsessions; personal regrets eroded but not transformed by time, like pebbles smoothed down by the current of the river; incongruous fantasies and the inadequacy of reality.” These are the stated inspiration behind Tabucchi’s novel, which...
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Antonio Tabucchi, trans. from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel et al. Archipelago, $18 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1-939810-15-1
The 22 elegant short stories in this posthumous collection highlight the international perspective, melancholy tone, humor, and compassion of Italian author Tabucchi (1943–2012). A scholar of Portuguese literature, Tabucchi writes about Portugal...
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