TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tabucchi, Antonio.
AU  - Martha Cooley (tr.)
TI  - TIME AGES IN A HURRY
SN  - 9780914671053
U1  - FC 
PY  - 2015////01/01
CY  - New York
PB  - Archipelago Books
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Italian Fiction
KW  - Fiction Collection
KW  - Short Stories Fiction
KW  - Short stories, Italian
KW  - Tabucchi, Antonio, 1943-2012
KW  - Italian writer
KW  - Martha Cooley, Translater
KW  - Romani, Antonio  Translater
KW  - Romani, Antonio Translator
N1  - 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."
ER  -