Requiem - A Hallucination

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

Product details

• Authors: Antonio Tabucchi
• Assisted by: Margaret Jull Costa (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.07.2021
• EAN: 9780241519318
• ISBN: 978-0-241-51931-8
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Italienische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Portugal, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Memoirs, Fiction in translation, TRAVEL / Europe / Spain & Portugal, Travel writing, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Magical Realism, Lisbon, Classic Travel Writing, FICTION / World Literature / Italy, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Novella (Short Novel)