by Antonio Tabucchi · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807813818
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«Sostiene Pereira», subtitled Una testimonianza, is the novel by Antonio Tabucchi, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (214 pages, in Italian).
Set in Lisbon in August 1938, against the backdrop of Portuguese Salazarism, Italian fascism and the Spanish Civil War, the novel follows Pereira, a cultural journalist for the newspaper Lisboa. His routine changes when he meets a young man linked to the antifascist resistance, and he ends up questioning his neutrality.
The novel belongs to the Universale Economica Feltrinelli collection (no. 1381) and was originally published in 1994; it received the Campiello Prize and the Viareggio-Rèpaci Prize.
For readers of historical fiction and European narrative interested in the political context of the interwar period.
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.
