Message from the Shadows
Selected Stories
Published on 14. May 2019
300 pages
978-1-939810-16-8 (ISBN)
Description
This new, expanded collection of Antonio Tabucchi's stories collects the best short fiction from the Italian author recognized as one of the masters of the form.
Message From the Shadows is a new collection featuring Antonio Tabucchi's finest short stories, spanning the breadth of his career. These playful tales explore Tabucchi's signature themes, from his inventive, lyrical meditations on language, art, and philosophy, to his fascination with the passage of time, and the mystery of storytelling.
Message From the Shadows is a new collection featuring Antonio Tabucchi's finest short stories, spanning the breadth of his career. These playful tales explore Tabucchi's signature themes, from his inventive, lyrical meditations on language, art, and philosophy, to his fascination with the passage of time, and the mystery of storytelling.
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A master of short fiction, Antonio Tabucchi won the Prix Médicis Étranger for Indian Nocturne, the Italian PEN Prize for Requiem: A Hallucination, the Aristeion European Literature Prize for Pereira Declares, and was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Together with his wife, Maria José de Lancastre, Tabucchi translated much of the work of Fernando Pessoa into Italian. Tabucchi's works include The Flying Creature of Fra Angelico, The Woman of Porto Pim, and Little Misunderstandings of No Importance (all translated by Tim Parks), Tristano Dies and For Isabel: A Mandala (both translated by Elizabeth Harris, recipient of the National Translation Award), and Time Ages in a Hurry (translated by Martha Cooley and Antonio Romani).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Reversal Game
- Clouds
- Letter from Casablanca
- The Cheshire Cat
- Night, Sea, or Distance
- Message from the Shadows
- The Woman from Porto Pim: A Story
- Islands
- The Translation
- Wanderlust
- The Trains That Go to Madras
- The phrase that follows this is false: the phrase that precedes this is true
- Bucharest Hasn't Changed a Bit
- Little Misunderstandings of No Importance
- Drip, Drop, Drippity-Drop
- The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico
- Against Time
- Little Gatsby
- Cinema
- Small Blue Whales Strolling about the Azores
- Yo me enamoré del aire
- Voices
- Postscript: A Whale's View of Man
