Requiem (eBook)

A Hallucination

Antonio Tabucchi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
96 Seiten
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-199739-1 (ISBN)

Infos

'A funny, sad novella about how we got here from there, and how, in our youth, "e;our eyes saw things differently"e;' The TimesA private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucchi's adopted cityIn 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.'Tabucchi is a master of illusion and allusion, and this is a literary puzzle that teases, amuses and provokes' Sunday Telegraph

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2021
• Übersetzer: Margaret Jull Costa
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• ISBN-10: 0-14-199739-7 / 0141997397
• ISBN-13: 978-0-14-199739-1 / 9780141997391