by Antonio Tabucchi · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429744217
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«Piazza d'Itàlia» is Antonio Tabucchi's first novel, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (152 pages, in Catalan).
Tabucchi's first novel: three generations of an anarchist family from Tuscany cross Italy's history, from unification to liberation, amid travels, wars and revolts. The work combines humor and melancholy to portray the rebellion and memory of the losers, in a popular fable with a fragmentary style.
This edition, published in 1998, comes from the original Italian. It is part of the El Balancí collection (no. 328) and the work was originally published in 1975.
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.
