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«Ho molto affetto per gli onesti libri di viaggio… Essi posseggono la virtù di offrire un altrove teorico e plausibile al nostro dove imprescindibile e massiccio». Queste frasi di Tabucchi ci richiamano alla mente queste altre dello Zibaldone di Leopardi: «Le parole lontano, antico e simili sono poeticissime e piacevoli perché destano idee vaste e indefinite...». Più ad esse corre il confronto che verso i mari e le isole di Conrad e di Melville. Le isole di Tabucchi sono paesaggi che digradano rapidi verso la tentazione metafisica, le sue balene azzurre sirene che cantano di lontananze che appartengono all'essere e non allo spazio e al tempo, le sue gesta di caccia e i suoi naufragi hanno per scenario i campi magnetici e le analogie potenti e misteriose delle parole.

La revista Luvina y la Editorial de la Universidad de Guadalajara reúnen estos cien Cuentos de Asia, Europa y América para celebrar el número 100 de Luvina y sus veinticinco años ininterrumpidos de publicación. Son textos representativos de la literatura universal contemporánea que Luvina ha publicado, especialmente en los números dedicados al país invitado de honor de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara. Es una muestra formada por distintas literaturas, en el afán de nombrar nuevos y originales mundos, en una dimensión habitada en su totalidad por la lengua. Cada uno de los cuentos permite internarse en la singularidad humana al mismo tiempo que en los entramados de los relatos, cuya belleza encierra vitalidad y resignificación de lo real gracias al encuentro de la creatividad y la imaginación del autor, la obra y el lector.

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.

This new, expanded collection of Antonio Tabucchi's stories collects the best short fiction from the Italian author recognized as one of the masters of the form.Message From the Shadows is a new collection featuring Antonio Tabucchi's finest short stories, spanning the breadth of his career. These playful tales explore Tabucchi's signature themes, from his inventive, lyrical meditations on language, art, and philosophy, to his fascination with the passage of time, and the mystery of storytelling.

Winner of the 2018 Italian Prose in Translation AwardA metaphysical detective story about love and existence from the Italian master, Antonio Tabucchi. When Tadeus sets out to find Isabel, his former love, he soon finds himself on a metaphysical journey across the world, one that calls into question the meaning of time and existence and the power of words. Isabel disappeared many years ago. Tadeus Slowacki, a Polish writer, her former friend and lover, has come back to Lisbon to learn of her whereabouts. Rumors abound: Isabel died in prison under Salazar's regime, or perhaps wasn't arrested at all. As Tadeus interviews one old acquaintance of hers after the next, a chameleon-like portrait of a young, ideological woman emerges, ultimately bringing Tadeus on a metaphysical journey across the continent. Constructed in the form of a mandala, For Isabel is the spiraling search for an enigma, an investigation into time and existence, the power of words, and the limits of the senses. In this posthumous work Tabucchi creates an ingenious narration, tracing circles around a lost woman and the ultimate inaccessible truth.