ID Scheda #10381

Sezione
Critica
Tipo di risorsa
articolo su periodico generalista
Autore
De Feo, Ronald
Titolo
Not Just an Eco
Titolo del periodico
The Nation
Specifiche del periodico
258
Editore
Nation Company, L. P.
Data di pubblicazione
6 giugno 1994
Pagine
802-804
Lingua
inglese
Paese di pubblicazione
Stati Uniti
Abstract
This article focuses on the book "Requiem: A Hallucination," by Antonio Tabucchi. Work by well-established modernists Tabucchi, continued to appear and still have a youthful vigor and spirit. Initially, Tabucchi's work, with its brief, concentrated, fable-like quality, brings to mind Italo Calvino's fiction. Yet as one reads on, the parallels drop away. Whereas Calvino produced fiction that read like tightly controlled prose poems, Tabucchi creates stories that are elliptical puzzles, not so much concluding as trailing off-they appear to end just when the reader hopes that they will continue.