Pereira Declares: A Testimony - Hardcover

Tabucchi, Antonio

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9780811213196: Pereira Declares: A Testimony

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ISBN 10: 0811213196 ISBN 13: 9780811213196

Publisher: New Directions Publishing, 1999

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The author's fifth novel features a middle-aged Portuguese journalist whose descent into isolation and apathy--with World War II looming on the horizon--is checked when he meets a charismatic young man.

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The narrative gathers its strange power--a sense of administrative, banality-of-evil dread--from a simple device: it's told by an unnamed interlocutor and appears to be the report of a government official to a superior. Tabucchi expertly chronicles Pereira's ascent to consciousness, which culminates in a quiet and reckless act of rebellion.

A small gem of a book that touches both the emotions and the intellect.--Bondo Wyszpolski

The narrative gathers its strange power a sense of administrative, banality-of-evil dread from a simple device: it's told by an unnamed interlocutor and appears to be the report of a government official to a superior. Tabucchi expertly chronicles Pereira's ascent to consciousness, which culminates in a quiet and reckless act of rebellion."

[Tabucchi's books are] economical surreal-comic novellas. There's a cosmopolitan eeriness here.--Amit Chaudhuri

Ingenious and moving, it links politics, commerce, and good writing in a way that's rare in this country: rich and varied, but best of all it's very enjoyable.

About the Author:

Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Lisbon, his adopted home, in 2012. Over the course of his career he won France's Medicis Prize for Indian Nocturne, the Italian PEN Prize for Requiem, and the Aristeion Prize for Pereira Maintains. A staunch critic of the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, he once said that "democracy isn't a state of perfection, it has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."

PATRICK CREAGH (1930-2012) was a British poet and translator.

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