by Antonio Tabucchi · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429753066
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The Woman of Porto Pim is a book written by Antonio Tabucchi, composed of a series of short stories that narrate a trip to the Azores. Through fragments, transcriptions and appendices, the author constructs a border narrative between the imaginary, the real and the cultural. The book explores themes such as love, failure and identity, all framed in the context of the Azores Islands.
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.
