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Antonio Tabucchi. Sostiene Pereira. Milan. Feltrinelli. 1994. 207 pages. L.27,000. ISBN 88-07014-61-0.
Antonio Tabucchi's narratives, especially those of the last decade, are based on a surrealistic and oneiric inspiration, which at times is fed by lyrical and evocative components. Tabucchi's writing is, above all, an artifice, a self-referring stem whose decodification demands a previous knowledge of the intellectual and artistic coordinates of the writer. Tabucchi is one of the most careful observers and original interpreters of the narrative and esthetic tendencies which emerged in Europe during the last two decades (the writer with whom he feels more spiritually close is one of the major representatives of the European avant-garde, the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa). However, he has also paid for the excesses of his experimentalism with works in which true emotions and sincere passions are missing. Reguiem: Un' allucinazione (see WLT 67:4, p. 800),...