by Antonio Tabucchi · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422624639
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«Nocturno hindú» is the novel by Antonio Tabucchi, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (168 pages, in Spanish).
A narrator travels to India in search of a missing friend; his journey through Bombay, Madras and Goa brings him across enigmatic characters, from prophets and Jesuits to marginal figures. The outward search merges with an inquiry into the renunciation of writing and the hidden side of things.
Translation from the Italian by Carmen Artal; epilogue by Josep Ramoneda. Originally «Notturno indiano», winner of the Prix Médicis étranger 1987.
Recommended for readers of contemporary Italian fiction and travel stories with a mysterious atmosphere.
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.
