by Antonio Tabucchi · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429739855
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«Afirma Pereira: Un testimoni» is the novel by Antonio Tabucchi, published by Edicions 62 in hardcover (176 pages, in Catalan).
In 1938 Lisbon, under Salazar's dictatorship, crime reporter Pereira is given the cultural section of a newspaper. His contact with young Monteiro Rossi and with Marta triggers a personal crisis and a growing awareness that transforms his life, amid censorship and authoritarianism.
Catalan translation by Xavier Riu; original in Italian, «Sostiene Pereira». El Balancí collection, no. 277. Published by Edicions 62 in 1995. The work won the Campiello Prize in 1994.
For readers of historical fiction and European narrative, especially those seeking stories of individual commitment against authoritarianism.
Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that when he returned to Italy, he took an introductory course in Portuguese for a better comprehension of the poet.
