by Antonio Tabucchi · Edite Tabacaria · tapa blanda · ISBN 5602227300762
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«Afirma Pereira» is the novel by Antonio Tabucchi, published by Edite Tabacaria in paperback, in Portuguese.
The action takes place in Lisbon in 1938, under Salazar's dictatorship, and follows Pereira, a veteran journalist who runs the culture section of a newspaper. His relationship with a young idealist leads him to question his passivity in the face of censorship and awakens his political conscience and his sense of moral responsibility.
For readers interested in fiction with a historical background on Salazar's dictatorship and in stories of political awakening.
Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that when he returned to Italy, he took an introductory course in Portuguese for a better comprehension of the poet.
