Antonio Tabucchi
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A metaphysical detective story about love and existence. When Tadeus sets out to find Isabel, his former love, he soon finds himself on a metaphysical journey across the world, one that calls into question the meaning of time and existence and the power of words. Isabel disappeared many years ago. Tadeus Slowacki, a Polish writer, her former friend and lover, has come back to Lisbon to learn of her whereabouts. Rumors abound: Isabel died in prison...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
A writer's walk through Lisbon and the encounters it brings, real and imaginary. Part travelogue, part biography, the novel was written in Portuguese by an Italian as homage to a city in which he worked. The story ends in a midnight conversation on a quay between the narrator and a dead poet.