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Requiem
A Hallucination
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon, in this brilliant homage to Tabucchi's country, culture and people.
In the city of Lisbon, Requiem's narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. Misunderstanding twelve to mean noon as opposed to midnight, he is left to wait. As the day unfolds he has many unexpected encounters - with a young drug addict, a disorientated taxi driver, a cemetery keeper, the mysterious Isabel and the ghost of the late great poet Fernando Pessoa - each meeting travelling between the real and illusionary.
Part travelogue, part autobiography, part fiction, Requiem becomes an homage to a country and its people, and a farewell to the past as the narrator lays claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is an evasive and many-sided personality.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Antonio Tabucchi's Requiem has been praised for its masterful blend of illusion and allusion, forming a literary puzzle that teases and provokes. It's described as a poignant novella that reflects on youthful perspectives and features a seamless writing style that captivates readers. The book is also noted for its charm and accessibility, with its narrative creating a personal tribute to Lisbon and evoking a cosmopolitan and sensuous atmosphere. The work is celebrated for its elegance and complexity, as well as its homage to Portuguese culture, all while maintaining a surreal, comic quality.
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ISBN: 9780241519318
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 July 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
- Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 6.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 81g
Pages: 96
About the Author
Antonio Tabucchi (Author) Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa, Italy in 1943. His critically acclaimed novels and short story collections include Little Misunderstandings of No Importance, Requiem- A Hallucination and Pereira Maintains, which won the Premio Campiello, Premio Viareggio and the Aristeion Prize amongst others. Tabucchi was professor at the University of Siena, and also taught at Bard College in New York, the Ecole de Hautes Etudes and the Coll ge de France in Paris. He died in Lisbon, his adopted home, in 2012. Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) Margaret Jull Costa has translated the works of many Spanish and Portuguese writers, among them novelists- Javier Marias, Jose Saramago and E a de Queiroz, and poets- Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Mario de Sa-Carneiro and Ana Luisa Amaral. Her work has brought her numerous prizes, most recently, the 2018 Premio Valle-Inclan for On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes. In 2014, she was awarded an OBE for services to literature.
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