tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322995747669796194.post3577420970890980721..comments2024-02-09T16:00:40.486+01:00Comments on Edith's Miscellany: Book Review: Pereira Maintains by Antonio TabucchiEdith LaGrazianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07885017198423641770noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322995747669796194.post-69010005401437352512015-05-12T13:49:25.039+02:002015-05-12T13:49:25.039+02:00The comment in my Italian edition too emphasised t...The comment in my Italian edition too emphasised that the works of Tabucchi are very different from each other and called <i>Maintains Pereira</i> the most accessible one. I'll see when I read another book of his, maybe the <i>Requiem</i> because for some reason it attracts me. Thanks, however, for your reading suggestions!<br /><br />And thanks for the praise of my review, Scott!Edith LaGrazianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07885017198423641770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322995747669796194.post-58344577035628452222015-05-11T21:34:15.977+02:002015-05-11T21:34:15.977+02:00Edith - Pereira is a bit different in style from T...Edith - <i>Pereira</i> is a bit different in style from Tabucchi's other work, though there's often a kind of "detective story" element in everything he writes. Try <i>Indian Nocturne</i> or any of his short story collections, maybe especially <i>Little Misunderstandings of No Importance</i>, for another facet of this multifaceted writer. And thanks for the great review.seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322995747669796194.post-48820475077025787992015-05-11T14:20:12.804+02:002015-05-11T14:20:12.804+02:00Thanks for your comment, Scott! Until you mentione...Thanks for your comment, Scott! Until you mentioned it, I haven't been aware of the strong Italian aspects of this novel - the only one of Tabucchi's works that I have read so far - although thinking about it, it makes sense that it strongly resonated there. There are quite some allusions to fascism in Italy through referrals to the work of D'Anunzio, for instance... and it isn't a far step to neo-fascism from there.<br /><br />Tabucchi and Mercier had very different approaches and I hesitate to compare them any more than I did at the end of my review. The setting is more or less the same, but for the rest they are very different. I liked them both very much, the one for its philosophical tone, the other for its clever political as well as literary allusionsEdith LaGrazianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07885017198423641770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322995747669796194.post-50312375314508475782015-05-10T19:21:07.060+02:002015-05-10T19:21:07.060+02:00I'm a big fan of Tabucchi, and this is probabl...I'm a big fan of Tabucchi, and this is probably the best of his more politically-oriented works. It apparently resonated quite strongly in Italy, since though it ostensibly concerns the fascist Salazar regime in Portugal, Italian readers recognized it as a warning about neo-fascism in Italy (part of why I prefer it to the Mercier book is this lack of distancing from present-day politics). <br /><br />It's great to see that Tabucchi's works are reappearing (and appearing) in English; Archipelago Books has been putting out quite a few of them lately. seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.com