Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchiwas an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 September 1943
CountryItaly
Antonio Tabucchi quotes about
thinking hands four-elements
But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
philosophy literature fantasy
Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.
case foreign invasion italian-writer targets
When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
soul intellectual body
A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.
character mean creating
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
regret able feels
Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.
dream jobs desire
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
choices doubt world
It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
country mean expression
In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.
book people engagement
My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
white doubt shirts
Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.
running thinking museums
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
war people grandfather
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
claims
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.