{"id":8012,"date":"2012-03-27T07:52:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=8012"},"modified":"2012-03-27T07:52:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:52:33","slug":"antonio-tabucchi-1943-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/antonio-tabucchi-1943-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Tabucchi (1943-2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tabucchi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8013 lazyload\" title=\"Tabucchi\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tabucchi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/216;\" \/><\/a>I have not been a great novel reader for a long time now, but Antonio <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Tabucchi\">Tabucchi<\/a> \u2014 first discovered in Paris in the eighties when Christian Bourgois started publishing him in French \u2014 was &amp; remains someone I read with pleasure. He is a supremely elegant, rather spare prose stylist, whose love for Portugal and \u2014 before all \u2014 the\u00a0writings\u00a0of poet\u00a0Fernando\u00a0Pessoa was so great that he not only \u00a0moved to Lisbon &amp; translated Pessoa into Italian, but even wrote some of his books first in Portuguese before translating\u00a0them back into his native Italian. In this country <a href=\"http:\/\/ndbooks.com\/books\/library\">New Directions<\/a> has\u00a0published\u00a0him for many years \u2014 try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0811215466\/ref=rdr_ext_tmb\"><em>It&#8217;s Getting Later All the Time.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not been a great novel reader for a long time now, but Antonio Tabucchi \u2014 first discovered in Paris in the eighties when Christian Bourgois started publishing him in French \u2014 was&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114,76,96],"tags":[1186],"class_list":["post-8012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homage","category-obituaries","category-prose","tag-antonio-tabucchi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8017,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions\/8017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}