TIME AGES IN A HURRY
Tabucchi, Antonio.
TIME AGES IN A HURRY /Translated from the Italian by Martha Cooley and Antonio Romani. - 1 - New York Archipelago Books 2015/01/01 - 140
As the collection's title suggests, time's passage is the fil rouge of these stories. All of Tabucchi's characters struggle to find routes of escape from a present that is hard to bear, and from places in which political events have had deeply personal ramifications for their own lives. Each of the nine stories in Time Ages in a Hurry is an imaginative inquiry into something hidden or disguised, which can be uncovered not by reason but only by feeling and intuition, by what isn't said. Disquieted and disoriented yet utterly human in their loves and fears, the characters in these vibrant and often playful stories suffer from what Tabucchi once referred to as a "corrupted relationship with history." Each protagonist must confront phantoms from the past, misguided or false beliefs, and the deepest puzzles of identity--and each in his or her own way ends up experiencing "an infinite sense of liberation, as when finally we understand something we'd known all along and didn't want to know."
9780914671053
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Fiction.
Italian Fiction.
Fiction Collection.
Short Stories Fiction.
Short stories, Italian
Tabucchi, Antonio, 1943-2012.
Italian writer.
Martha Cooley, Translater.
Romani, Antonio Translater.
Romani, Antonio Translator.
FC / TAB/TI
TIME AGES IN A HURRY /Translated from the Italian by Martha Cooley and Antonio Romani. - 1 - New York Archipelago Books 2015/01/01 - 140
As the collection's title suggests, time's passage is the fil rouge of these stories. All of Tabucchi's characters struggle to find routes of escape from a present that is hard to bear, and from places in which political events have had deeply personal ramifications for their own lives. Each of the nine stories in Time Ages in a Hurry is an imaginative inquiry into something hidden or disguised, which can be uncovered not by reason but only by feeling and intuition, by what isn't said. Disquieted and disoriented yet utterly human in their loves and fears, the characters in these vibrant and often playful stories suffer from what Tabucchi once referred to as a "corrupted relationship with history." Each protagonist must confront phantoms from the past, misguided or false beliefs, and the deepest puzzles of identity--and each in his or her own way ends up experiencing "an infinite sense of liberation, as when finally we understand something we'd known all along and didn't want to know."
9780914671053
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Fiction.
Italian Fiction.
Fiction Collection.
Short Stories Fiction.
Short stories, Italian
Tabucchi, Antonio, 1943-2012.
Italian writer.
Martha Cooley, Translater.
Romani, Antonio Translater.
Romani, Antonio Translator.
FC / TAB/TI