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Author |
: Antonio Tabucchi |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2005-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811222457 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811222454 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro by : Antonio Tabucchi
A literary thriller of heroin rings and headless bodies uncovers social ills and corruption in modern day Portugal, whileas in all of Tabucchi's workblurring genre boundaries. Antonio Tabucchi, Italy's premier writer and a best-selling author throughout Europe, draws together Manolo the gypsy, Firmino, a young tabloid journalist with a weakness for Lukacs and Vittorini, and Don Fernando, an overweight lawyer with a professed resemblance to the actor Charles Laughton, to solve a murder that leads far up and down Portugal's social ladder. As the investigation leads deeper into Portugal's power structure, the novel defies expectations, departing from the formulaic twists of a suspense story to consider the moral weight of power and its abuse.
Author |
: Antonio Tabucchi |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 116 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811215172 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811215176 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Requiem by : Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi's novel Requiem is set in Lisbon on a torrid July day. The unnamed narrator - clearly a persona of Tabucchi himself - awaits a midnight appointment on a quay of the Tagus. His time is filled with a succession of encounters with residents of the Portuguese capital, and with late friends and relations. Part travelog, part autobiography, part fiction, Requiem at once becomes a homage to a country and a people and a farewell to the past; requiescat in pace. In all this, the narrator himself remains shadowy, walking in a dream atmosphere. The midnight appointment approaches. The narrator meets at last with another unnamed writer, now long dead, though the evidence points to the great poet Fernando Pessoa. Requiem thus ends as an act of succession, the narrator's claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is of evasive and manifold personalities.
Author |
: Antonio Tabucchi |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 142 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811209857 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811209854 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Letter from Casablanca by : Antonio Tabucchi
Author |
: Antonio Tabucchi |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0811224511 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780811224512 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Edge of the Horizon by : Antonio Tabucchi
New Directions is proud to be the publisher of the the distinguished Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi, whose works include The Edge of the Horizon, a story of an "unimportant death," now available for the first time in a paperback edition.
Author |
: Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487506308 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487506309 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kafka’s Italian Progeny by : Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski
This book explores Kafka's sometimes surprising connections with key Italian writers, from Italo Calvino to Elena Ferrante, who shaped Italy's modern literary landscape.
Author |
: Antonio Tabucchi |
Publisher |
: City Lights Books |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0872863689 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780872863682 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dreams of Dreams and the Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa by : Antonio Tabucchi
"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.
Author |
: Francisco Cota Fagundes |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0820488615 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780820488615 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oral and Written Narratives and Cultural Identity by : Francisco Cota Fagundes
This interdisciplinary volume centers on the interrelations of storytelling and various manifestations of cultural identity, from written to oral and from autobiographical to regional and national. Indigenous storytelling, as well as storytelling for and by children and the elderly, are the main focus of these essays. Together, these fifteen texts make a significant contribution toward a deeper understanding of various aspects of textual and oral narrative: they broaden the lines of inquiry into multidisciplinary and multicultural interests, particularly those centering on the construction, expression, and contextualization of various types of identity; and they illustrate the deployment of storytelling not only as testimony, contestation, and subversion - but also as peacebuilding. Many countries, languages and cultures are herein represented - from the United States and Canada to Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia, from English to Japanese to Greek to Italian to the languages of indigenous peoples of Latin America and the Philippines.
Author |
: JoAnn Cannon |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 145 |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802091147 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802091148 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Novel as Investigation by : JoAnn Cannon
Detective fiction is a universally popular genre; stories about the investigation of a crime by a detective are published all over the world and in hundreds of languages. Detective fiction provides more than entertainment, however; it often has a great deal to say about crime and punishment, justice and injustice, testimony and judgment. The Novel as Investigation examines a group of detective novels by three important Italian writers - Leonardo Sciascia, Dacia Maraini, and Antonio Tabucchi - whose conviction about the ethical responsibility of the writer manifests itself in their investigative fiction. Jo-Ann Cannon explores each writer's denunciation of societal ills in two complementary texts. These investigative novels shed light on pressing social ills, which are not particular to Italian society of the late twentieth century but are universal in scope: Sciascia focuses on abuses of power and the death penalty, Maraini on violence against women, Tabucchi on torture and police brutality. In addition, each of these texts self-reflexively explore the role of writing in society. Sciascia, Maraini, and Tabucchi all use their fiction to defend the power of the pen to address "il male del mondo." The Novel as Investigation will be of interest to a broad audience of readers, including those interested in Italian and comparative literature, Italian social history, and cultural studies.
Author |
: Antonio Tabucchi |
Publisher |
: Archipelago |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 2015-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780914671053 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0914671057 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Time Ages in a Hurry by : Antonio Tabucchi
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. Each of the nine stories in Time Ages in a Hurry is an imaginative inquiry into something hidden or disguised, which can be uncovered not by reason but only by feeling and intuition, by what isn't said. Disquieted and disoriented yet utterly human in their loves and fears, the characters in these vibrant and often playful stories suffer from what Tabucchi once referred to as a "corrupted relationship with history." Each protagonist must confront phantoms from the past, misguided or false beliefs, and the deepest puzzles of identity--and each in his or her own way ends up experiencing "an infinite sense of liberation, as when finally we understand something we'd known all along and didn't want to know."
Author |
: Clara Sarmento |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 2010-08-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443824644 |
ISBN-13 |
: 144382464X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Here to Diversity by : Clara Sarmento
From Here to Diversity: Globalization and Intercultural Dialogues sees interculturalism as movement, transit, travel, and the dynamics between cultures. Contemporary intercultural travel is a global journey, a circumnavigation at the speed of light that underwrites all the comings and goings, the departures and arrivals, the transmissions and receptions that are implicit in this title. Hence, From Here to Diversity examines the motivations, characteristics and implications of cultural interactions in their perpetual movement, devoid of spatial or temporal borders, in a dangerous but stimulating indefinition of limits. In the contemporary intercultural dialogue, new voices are making themselves heard, as valuable sources of study: the voices of women; non-occidentals; the non-powerful; forgotten narratives of a past that was as intercultural as the present (after all, what is colonialism other than a perverse form of interculturality?); global entertainment; tourism; oral literature; diaries; mythical narratives; the cinema; ethnography; and new teachings, among so many others. Because this project is also intercultural at its source and subject, From Here to Diversity: Globalization and Intercultural Dialogues adds to the coherence of the project by including contributions from the most wide-ranging backgrounds and nationalities, without fear of the alterity that, after all, we propose to study.