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In Stories with Pictures, Antonio Tabucchi responds to paintings, drawings, and photographs from his dual homelands of Italy and Portugal, among other countries. This collection's varied writings - stories, essays, journal entries, poems - spring forth from the shadows of Tabucchi's imagin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tabucchi, Antonio, 1943-2012 (Author)
Other Authors: Harris, Elizabeth, 1996- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY : Achipelago Books, 2021.
Edition:First Achipelago Books edition.
Subjects:
Intimacy (Psychology) > Fiction.
Loneliness > Fiction.
Time > Fiction.
Intimacy (Psychology)
Loneliness.
Time.
Saudade
Fiction.
Short stories.
Table of Contents:
  • Author's note
  • Adagios : So long
  • Flames
  • Rainy evening on a Holland dike
  • Bernardo Soares on holiday
  • Faraway
  • The painter and his creatures
  • A window onto the unknown
  • Story of the man of paper
  • Dreaming with Dacosta
  • On the road to Möbius
  • An unforgettable night
  • Hold it--don't wake up
  • A discovered letter
  • Double enigma
  • The minotaur's headaches
  • A midwinter night's dream
  • Andantes, con brio : The heirs are grateful
  • A difficult decision
  • The lady-with-the-hat
  • A curandeiro in the city on the water
  • Ariettas : The arrival of Doctor Pereira
  • The fixed traveler
  • Like a mirror
  • Portraits of Stevenson
  • Spices, lace, distant journeys
  • Dear wall, I'm writing you
  • Diary of Crete, with hues of sinopia
  • Outside terraces, inside terraces
  • Parisian cafés
  • For a catalogue that isn't
  • Translator's note
  • Art.