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Stories with Pictures | Antonio Tabucchi

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A masterful collection about intimacy, loneliness, and time, each inspired by different works of art, spanning the entirety of the great Italian writer's career. In Stories with Pictures, Antonio Tabucchi responds to photographs, drawings, and paintings from his dual homelands of Italy and Portugal, among other European countries. The stories in this collection spring forth from the shadows of Tabucchi's imagination, as he steps into worlds just hidden from view. From inscrutable masks of pre-Columbian gods, stamps of bright parrots and postcars of yellow cities, portraits of devilish Portuguese nuns, the way to these remote landscapes appear like a "train emerging from a thick curtain of heat." As we peer through the curtain, what we find on the other side rings distinctly human, a world charged with melancholic longing for time gone by. "Sight, hearing, voice, word" Tabucchi writes, "this flow isn't in one direction, the current is back and forth." Reading these stories, one feels the pendulum current, and the desire in this remarkable author to hold the real in the surreal.

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Stories with Pictures | Antonio Tabucchi

so-so

Another book in translation. I was intrigued with the origins of these stories - each based on the artwork that precedes each story in the collection - and the idea that a story based on an artwork takes the story being told by the original artist in an entirely new direction. That said, while I enjoyed the first several stories, I found later stories and essays just too abstract and difficult to parse for my liking.

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Stories with Pictures | Antonio Tabucchi

so-so

There were some stories here that I really loved, but as a whole though, while the prose itself, and his little essays at the end were pretty, it didn't do much for me. The pictures were also nice, but not enough. I felt like the book needed to be broken up a but more, or just half the stuff removed.

Thank you, #NetGalley for this #ARC!
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