by Antonio Tabucchi · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807016462
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«Tristano muere» is the contemporary novel by Antonio Tabucchi, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (162 pages, in Italian).
An elderly partisan, Tristano, turns his deathbed in Tuscany into a confessional: before a writer, he recounts memories of loves, the war in Greece and the Resistance, while his old caretaker Frau whispers childhood tales to him. Between delirium and lucidity, the novel interrogates heroism, cowardice and the meaning of a life told on the edge of the end.
The novel belongs to Feltrinelli's I Narratori collection, whose first edition was published in February 2004.
Aimed at readers of contemporary Italian fiction interested in historical memory and the Resistance.
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.
