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
As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
fundamentals impossible values
There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
country war world
I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
life teacher jobs
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
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.
girl moon night
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.
xenophobia mean land
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
religious perfect political
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
jobs perfection doubt
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
character mean creating
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
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.
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.
ideas perfection doctrine
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.