by Antonio Tabucchi · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467240450
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«El tiempo envejece deprisa» is Antonio Tabucchi's collection of nine stories, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (153 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together nine stories about time and memory. A former Stasi agent visits Bertolt Brecht's grave; an Italian officer teaches how to read the future in the clouds; a man who tells himself stories ends up becoming the protagonist. The whole creates melancholic and enigmatic atmospheres, with a reality whose code seems lost.
Translation by Carlos Gumpert; original title: Il tempo invecchia in fretta. Edition with dust jacket. Published in July 2010.
For readers of literary fiction who appreciate stories with historical background and melancholic atmospheres.
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.
