Bibliograph

Requiem, a hallucination, Antonio Tabucchi ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Type

Label

Requiem, a hallucination, Antonio Tabucchi ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Requiem

Oclc number

29548470

Responsibility statement

Antonio Tabucchi ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Sub title

a hallucination

Summary

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

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