Little Misunderstandings Of No Importance

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811222440

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Little Misunderstandings of No Importance by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

The eleven short stories in this prize-winning collection pivot on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays the decisive role in the protagonists' lives? The eleven short stories in this prize-winning collection pivot on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays the decisive role in the protagonists' lives? Blended with the author's wonderfully intelligent imagination is his compassionate perception of elemental aspects of the human experience, be it grief as in "Waiting for Winter," about the widow of a nation's literary lion, or madcap adventure as in "The Riddle," about a mysterious lady and a trip in Proust's Bugatti Royale.

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210695289

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Little Misunderstanding of No Importance by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,9 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."

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811222457

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The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

A literary thriller of heroin rings and headless bodies uncovers social ills and corruption in modern day Portugal, whileas in all of Tabucchi's workblurring genre boundaries. Antonio Tabucchi, Italy's premier writer and a best-selling author throughout Europe, draws together Manolo the gypsy, Firmino, a young tabloid journalist with a weakness for Lukacs and Vittorini, and Don Fernando, an overweight lawyer with a professed resemblance to the actor Charles Laughton, to solve a murder that leads far up and down Portugal's social ladder. As the investigation leads deeper into Portugal's power structure, the novel defies expectations, departing from the formulaic twists of a suspense story to consider the moral weight of power and its abuse.

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811215172

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Requiem by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

Antonio Tabucchi's novel Requiem is set in Lisbon on a torrid July day. The unnamed narrator - clearly a persona of Tabucchi himself - awaits a midnight appointment on a quay of the Tagus. His time is filled with a succession of encounters with residents of the Portuguese capital, and with late friends and relations. Part travelog, part autobiography, part fiction, Requiem at once becomes a homage to a country and a people and a farewell to the past; requiescat in pace. In all this, the narrator himself remains shadowy, walking in a dream atmosphere. The midnight appointment approaches. The narrator meets at last with another unnamed writer, now long dead, though the evidence points to the great poet Fernando Pessoa. Requiem thus ends as an act of succession, the narrator's claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is of evasive and manifold personalities.

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811209857

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Letter from Casablanca by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

Author : Zygmunt G. Barânski (ed),Rebecca J. West
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521559820

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture by Zygmunt G. Barânski (ed),Rebecca J. West Pdf

This collection of essays provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Contributions focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, feminism, the separatist movements, organised crime, literature, art, design, fashion, the mass media, and music. While offering a thorough history of Italian cultural movements, political trends and literary texts over the last century and a half, the volume also examines the cultural and political situation in Italy today and suggests possible future directions in which the country might move. Each essay contains suggestions for further reading on the topics covered. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture is an invaluable source of materials for courses on all aspects of modern Italy.

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935744757

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The Woman of Porto Pim by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

By Antonio Tabucchi, one of the most renowned voices in European literature and the foremost Italian writer of his generation, The Woman of Porto Pim is made up of enchanting, hallucinatory fragments that take place on the Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal. Told by a visiting Italian writer unearthing legends, relics and histories of the inhabitants, the tales shed light on a local restaurant proprietress's impossible love with an Azorean fisherman during WWII, a dazzling whaling expedition of eras past, shipwrecks both metaphorical and real, and a playful look at humankind from the perspective of a whale.

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0872863689

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Dreams of Dreams and the Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

"The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa finds the poet on his deathbed, where he is visited by his heteronyms, the poets he invented, whose poetry and voices invented him. Antonio Tabucchi, scholar and Italian translator of Pessoa's work, here pronounces a farewell to a man who was several of the greatest writers of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811221443

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Indian Nocturne by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

"An enjoyable, well-crafted little book."—The Complete Review Translated from the Italian, this winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger for 1987 is an enigmatic novel set in modern India. Roux, the narrator, is in pursuit of a mysterious friend named Xavier. His search, which develops into a quest, takes him from town to town across the subcontinent.

Author : Audra Simpson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822376781

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Mohawk Interruptus by Audra Simpson Pdf

Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism. The Kahnawà:ke Mohawks are part of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy. Like many Iroquois peoples, they insist on the integrity of Haudenosaunee governance and refuse American or Canadian citizenship. Audra Simpson thinks through this politics of refusal, which stands in stark contrast to the politics of cultural recognition. Tracing the implications of refusal, Simpson argues that one sovereign political order can exist nested within a sovereign state, albeit with enormous tension around issues of jurisdiction and legitimacy. Finally, Simpson critiques anthropologists and political scientists, whom, she argues, have too readily accepted the assumption that the colonial project is complete. Belying that notion, Mohawk Interruptus calls for and demonstrates more robust and evenhanded forms of inquiry into indigenous politics in the teeth of settler governance.

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780887846960

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The Truth about Stories by Thomas King Pdf

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Author : Antoine de Saint−Exupery
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780369406378

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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint−Exupery Pdf

The Little Prince and nbsp;(French: and nbsp;Le Petit Prince) is a and nbsp;novella and nbsp;by French aristocrat, writer, and aviator and nbsp;Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in the US by and nbsp;Reynal and amp; Hitchcock and nbsp;in April 1943, and posthumously in France following the and nbsp;liberation of France and nbsp;as Saint-Exupéry's works had been banned by the and nbsp;Vichy Regime. The story follows a young prince who visits various planets in space, including Earth, and addresses themes of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss. Despite its style as a children's book, and nbsp;The Little Prince and nbsp;makes observations about life, adults and human nature. The Little Prince and nbsp;became Saint-Exupéry's most successful work, selling an estimated 140 million copies worldwide, which makes it one of the and nbsp;best-selling and nbsp;and and nbsp;most translated books and nbsp;ever published. and nbsp;It has been translated into 301 languages and dialects. and nbsp;The Little Prince and nbsp;has been adapted to numerous art forms and media, including audio recordings, radio plays, live stage, film, television, ballet, and opera.

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,9 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.

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 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.