by Antonio Tabucchi · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241519318
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«Requiem: A Hallucination» is the magical realism novella by Antonio Tabucchi, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (96 pages, in English).
In Lisbon, the narrator mistakes midnight for noon and waits at the Tagus pier. His encounters with a drug addict, a taxi driver, the mysterious Isabel, and the ghost of Fernando Pessoa unfold between the real and the illusory. The work, between travel writing, autobiography, and fiction, is a homage to Portugal.
Work originally published in 1991 as «Requiem: Uma Alucinação» and translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa. This edition belongs to the Penguin Modern Classics collection.
A suitable read for those interested in contemporary literary fiction and magical realism.
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.
