Tabucchi, Antonio
Stories With Pictures
- ISBN 13:
- 9781939810687
- author:
- Tabucchi, Antonio
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Archipelago Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 300
- Dimensions:
- 23.1 x 15.8 x 2.3 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Fiction & Literature,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
Antonio Tabucchi's Stories with Pictures is a masterful collection of short stories that explore intimacy, loneliness, and time. Inspired by various works of art from his dual homelands of Italy and Portugal, among other European countries, these stories reveal the shadows of Tabucchi's imagination. Through photographs, drawings, and paintings, Tabucchi steps into worlds just hidden from view, creating a world charged with melancholic longing for time gone by. His writing weaves together sight, hearing, voice, and word, forming a flow that is both back and forth, like the pendulum current of life. This remarkable collection invites readers to peer through the curtain of Tabucchi's imagination and discover a world that rings distinctly human. With its unique blend of the surreal and the real, Stories with Pictures offers a profound exploration of the human experience.