by Antonio Tabucchi · Sellerio di Giorgianni · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788838902550
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«Notturno indiano» is the novel by Antonio Tabucchi, published by Sellerio di Giorgianni in paperback (109 pages, in Italian).
A narrator searches India for a missing friend, a shadow of a past marked by a rupture. The country is seen from hotels and hospitals, in dialogues with prophets, Portuguese Jesuits and Gnostics. The search, seemingly incongruous, reveals the nocturnal and hidden side of things.
Originally published in 1984, it is part of the «La memoria» collection (no. 93) by Sellerio and received the Prix Médicis étranger in 1987.
For readers of contemporary Italian fiction and travel literature who appreciate a suggestive atmosphere and an allusive narrative.
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.
