by Antonio Tabucchi · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433967824
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In this epistolary novel by Antonio Tabucchi, the author renews the tradition of the epistolary genre, breaking its codes and perverting it. Through seventeen letters from male characters addressed to female figures, a landscape that shifts and times that are inverted is revealed, creating an atmosphere of destinies that do not meet. The whole offers a journey through human passions, where love is presented as an illusory central point, and tenderness, sensuality and nostalgia are explored. A distant and implacable female voice completes this story overflowing with sorrow.
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.
