by Antonio Tabucchi · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433906465
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«Réquiem» is the novel by Antonio Tabucchi, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (142 pages, in Spanish).
A man finds himself, without knowing how, in an empty and scorching Lisbon, on a July Sunday, with a mission: to meet an illustrious figure who has already disappeared. Between dream and wakefulness, he traverses the city among ghosts and memories that reorder his life; the narration, in diary form, is a homage to Portugal.
The novel, translated by Carlos Gumpert and Xavier González Rovira, was published in the Panorama de narrativas collection (no. 295); its original Portuguese title is «Requiem: Uma Alucinação» (1991).
Intended for readers of contemporary fiction who appreciate the crossover between the dreamlike and the real, and for followers of Antonio Tabucchi.
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.
