by Antonio Tabucchi · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433975287
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«El tiempo envejece deprisa» is a book of nine stories by Antonio Tabucchi, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
The characters in these nine stories confront time and memory: an East German spy visits Bertolt Brecht's grave with a secret, an Italian officer affected by radiation in Kosovo teaches how to read the future in the clouds, and a loner ends up living the stories he invents. Cosmopolitan fictions about memory and reality.
Panorama de narrativas collection, no. 747. Translation by Carlos Gumpert. The original Italian title is Il tempo invecchia in fretta (2009).
For readers of short fiction and contemporary Italian literature; ideal for those seeking reflective and cosmopolitan fiction.
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.
