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Antonio Tabucchi, one of Italy's most original prose stylists, gives us two works of ingenious imagination in this second volume of our contemporary Italian literature in translation series, "City Lights/Italian Voices." In a sly variation on other collections of exemplary or cautionary "lives"--from Plutarch to Marcel Schwob to Jorge Luis Borges--in Dreams of Dreams Antonio Tabucchi imagines the dreams of twenty artists he has loved and admired: Daedalus, Ovid, Apuleius, Cecco Angiolieri, Francois Villon, Francois Rabelais, Caravaggio, Goya, Coleridge, Leopardi, Carlo Collodi, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rimbaud, Chekhov, Claude Debussy, Toulouse-Lautrec, Fernando Pessoa, Mayakovsky, García Lorca, and Sigmund Freud. In this series of imaginative conjectures and philosophical meditations, Francois Villon wanders in the forest of the hanged and Freud dreams that he is Dora and perhaps learns something about "what women want." Tabucchi resumes his own dreaming with The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa, a metaphysical recounting of the end of the poet. Tabucchi is a scholar and translator of the work of Fernando Pessoa, and here he pays moving tribute to the man who invented the Portuguese avant-garde and reinvented the myth of Lisbon. It is November 1935 and Pessoa lies on his deathbed in the São Luís dos Franceses Hospital. His three days of suffering are marked by delirium and relieved only by timely injections and the regular visits of his heteronyms, the poets he's invented, whose poetry and voices invented him. They come to exchange confidences, make confessions, and take their leave. In this fictional biography, Tabucchi pronounces a tender farewell to a man who was several of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Praise for Antonio Tabucchi--
"Reading this is like having a buzzed after-dinner conversation with a mind too brilliant. . . ." - Kirkus Reviews on Requiem: A Hallucination "There is in Tabucchi's stories the touch of the true magician, who astonishes us by never trying too hard for his subtle, elusive and remarkable effects." - The San Francisco Examiner "Meticulously crafted stories marked by wit, emotion, memory, and lost grandeur." - Publishers Weekly "Elegant, cosmopolitan, inventive, and disquieting; his writing is, paradoxically, sensuous and economical." - The Boston Review
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