by Antonio Tabucchi · 10/18 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264021441
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«Piazza d'Italia» is the novel by Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi, published by 10/18 in paperback (188 pages, in French).
Antonio Tabucchi's first novel, presented as a folk tale in three parts, an epilogue and an appendix. It follows a humble Tuscan family over three generations, from Garibaldi's red shirts to the defeat of Mussolini's black shirts, with tragicomic scenes spanning the history of Italy.
The work was originally published in 1975; this French edition dates from 1995.
For readers of literary fiction interested in Italian history and in Antonio Tabucchi's narrative work.
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.
