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Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico

Antonio Tabucchi
Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico Book PDF

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935744573

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Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

Hypochondria, insomnia, restlessness, and yearning are the lame muses of these brief pages. I would have liked to call them Extravaganzas . . . because many of them wander about in a strange outside that has no inside, like drifting splinters. . . . Alien to any orbit, I have the impression they navigate in familiar spaces whose geometry nevertheless remains a mystery; let’s say domestic thickets: the interstitial zones of our daily having to be, or bumps on the surface of existence . . . In them, in the form of quasi-stories, are the murmurings and mutterings that have accompanied and still accompany me: outbursts, moods, little ecstasies, real or presumed emotions, grudges, and regrets. —Antonio Tabucchi on The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico

Message from the Shadows

Antonio Tabucchi
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Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939810168

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Message from the Shadows by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

This new, expanded collection of Antonio Tabucchi's stories collects the best short fiction from the Italian author recognized as one of the masters of the form. Message From the Shadows is a new collection featuring Antonio Tabucchi's finest short stories, spanning the breadth of his career. These playful tales explore Tabucchi's signature themes, from his inventive, lyrical meditations on language, art, and philosophy, to his fascination with the passage of time, and the mystery of storytelling.

The Edge of the Horizon

Antonio Tabucchi
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Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811224529

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The Edge of the Horizon by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

New Directions is proud to be the publisher of the the distinguished Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi, whose works include The Edge of the Horizon, a story of an “unimportant death,” now available for the first time in a paperback edition. Late on night, the body of a young man is delivered to the morgue of an Italian town. The next day's newspapers report that he was killed in a police raid, and that went by the obviously false name "Carlo Nobodi." Spino, the morgue attendant on duty at the time, becomes obsessed with tracing the identity of the corpse. "Why do you want to know about him?" asks a local priest. "Because he is dead and I'm alive," replies Spino. In this spare yet densely packed cautionary tale, Tabucchi reminds us that it is impossible to reach the edge of the horizon since it always recedes before us, but suggests that some people "carry the horizon with them in their eyes."

Pessoa in an International Web

David G. Frier
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Author : David G. Frier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351192934

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Pessoa in an International Web by David G. Frier Pdf

"Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is Portugal's most celebrated poet of the twentieth century, who wrote under the guise of dozens of literary personalities, or heteronyms. As well as his poetry, however, his work is marked by a constantly inventive and innovative engagement with authors and literary traditions from an astonishing variety of sources, placing him firmly in the worldwide literary canon. The present volume brings together a number of experts at the forefront of Pessoa studies internationally, with chapters examining his literary relations with Italy, Spain, France, England and Portugal, as well as his contextualisation in relation to major philosophers such as Kant and Nietzsche. It features essays examining his work from a range of perspectives to complement the multi-faceted nature of Pessoa himself (psychoanalytical, philosophical, political and artistic) and it includes consideration of his prose masterpiece The Book of Disquiet , as well as of various aspects of his poetic oeuvre."

Stories with Pictures

Antonio Tabucchi
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Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939810687

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Stories with Pictures by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

A masterful collection about intimacy, loneliness, and time, each inspired by different works of art, spanning the entirety of the great Italian writer's career. In Stories with Pictures, Antonio Tabucchi responds to photographs, drawings, and paintings from his dual homelands of Italy and Portugal, among other European countries. The stories in this collection spring forth from the shadows of Tabucchi's imagination, as he steps into worlds just hidden from view. From inscrutable masks of pre-Columbian gods, stamps of bright parrots and postcars of yellow cities, portraits of devilish Portuguese nuns, the way to these remote landscapes appear like a "train emerging from a thick curtain of heat." As we peer through the curtain, what we find on the other side rings distinctly human, a world charged with melancholic longing for time gone by. "Sight, hearing, voice, word" Tabucchi writes, "this flow isn't in one direction, the current is back and forth." Reading these stories, one feels the pendulum current, and the desire in this remarkable author to hold the real in the surreal.

Tristano Dies

Antonio Tabucchi
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Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780914671244

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Tristano Dies by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

It is a sultry August at the very end of the twentieth century, and Tristano is dying. A hero of the Italian Resistance, Tristano has called a writer to his bedside to listen to his life story, though, really, “you don’t tell a life…you live a life, and while you’re living it, it’s already lost, has slipped away.” Tristano Dies, one of Antonio Tabucchi’s major novels, is a vibrant consideration of love, war, devotion, betrayal, and the instability of the past, of storytelling, and what it means to be a hero.

Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation

Robin Healey
Twentieth century Italian Literature in English Translation Book PDF

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802008003

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Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation by Robin Healey Pdf

This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.

The Art of Flight

Sergio Pitol
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Author : Sergio Pitol
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781941920060

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The Art of Flight by Sergio Pitol Pdf

Debut work in English, a literary memoir, by Sergio Pitol, maestro of Mexican literature, winner of the 2005 Cervantes Prize.

Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016

Robin Healey
Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929 2016 Book PDF

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487502928

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Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016 by Robin Healey Pdf

Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey's Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.

Time Ages in a Hurry

Antonio Tabucchi
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Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780914671053

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Time Ages in a Hurry by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

As the collection's title suggests, time's passage is the fil rouge of these stories. All of Tabucchi's characters struggle to find routes of escape from a present that is hard to bear, and from places in which political events have had deeply personal ramifications for their own lives. Each of the nine stories in Time Ages in a Hurry is an imaginative inquiry into something hidden or disguised, which can be uncovered not by reason but only by feeling and intuition, by what isn't said. Disquieted and disoriented yet utterly human in their loves and fears, the characters in these vibrant and often playful stories suffer from what Tabucchi once referred to as a "corrupted relationship with history." Each protagonist must confront phantoms from the past, misguided or false beliefs, and the deepest puzzles of identity--and each in his or her own way ends up experiencing "an infinite sense of liberation, as when finally we understand something we'd known all along and didn't want to know."

Romancing Decay

Michael St John
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Author : Michael St John
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351902564

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Romancing Decay by Michael St John Pdf

This collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from medieval times to the present day. Various definitions of the term are explored, including the notion of decadence as physical decay. Some of the essays draw parallels between modernist and postmodernist notions of decadence. Similarities are detected between fin de siècle decadence at the end of the nineteenth century (which reaches its apotheosis in the character of Eugene Wrayburn in Our Mutual Friend) and depictions of decadence in our own age as we enter the new millennium.

The Big Book of Modern Fantasy

Ann Vandermeer,Jeff VanderMeer
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Author : Ann Vandermeer,Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525563860

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The Big Book of Modern Fantasy by Ann Vandermeer,Jeff VanderMeer Pdf

WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER • A true horde of fantasy tales sure to delight fans, scholars, and even the greediest of dragons—from bestselling authors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Step through a shimmering portal ... a worn wardrobe door ... a schism in sky ... into a bold new age of fantasy. When worlds beyond worlds became a genre unto itself. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties—and beyond, into the twenty-first century—the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. The stories in this collection represent twenty-two different countries, including Russia, Argentina, Nigeria, Columbia, Pakistan, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, China, the Philippines, and the Czech Republic. Five have never before been translated into English. From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock to Angela Carter, Terry Pratchett to Stephen King, the full range and glory of the fantastic are on display in these ninety-one stories in which dragons soar, giants stomp, and human children should still think twice about venturing alone into the dark forest. Completing Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's definitive The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, this companion volume to takes the genre into the twenty-first century with ninety-one astonishing, mind-bending stories. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

For Isabel: A Mandala

Antonio Tabucchi
For Isabel A Mandala Book PDF

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780914671800

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For Isabel: A Mandala by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

Winner of the 2018 Italian Prose in Translation Award A metaphysical detective story about love and existence from the Italian master, Antonio Tabucchi. When Tadeus sets out to find Isabel, his former love, he soon finds himself on a metaphysical journey across the world, one that calls into question the meaning of time and existence and the power of words. Isabel disappeared many years ago. Tadeus Slowacki, a Polish writer, her former friend and lover, has come back to Lisbon to learn of her whereabouts. Rumors abound: Isabel died in prison under Salazar's regime, or perhaps wasn't arrested at all. As Tadeus interviews one old acquaintance of hers after the next, a chameleon-like portrait of a young, ideological woman emerges, ultimately bringing Tadeus on a metaphysical journey across the continent. Constructed in the form of a mandala, For Isabel is the spiraling search for an enigma, an investigation into time and existence, the power of words, and the limits of the senses. In this posthumous work Tabucchi creates an ingenious narration, tracing circles around a lost woman and the ultimate inaccessible truth.

Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies

Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies Book PDF

Author : Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2258 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135455293

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Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies by Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.

The New Italian Novel

Zygmunt G. Bara?ski,Lino Pertile
The New Italian Novel Book PDF

Author : Zygmunt G. Bara?ski,Lino Pertile
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802080804

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The New Italian Novel by Zygmunt G. Bara?ski,Lino Pertile Pdf

Since the late 1960's there have been many important Italian writers whose work remains unknown outside Italy. This ground-breaking book offers general critical introductions to fifteen contemporary novelists whose work is of an international calibre.