The Woman of Porto Pim
by Antonio Tabucchi
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A collage of evocative, hallucinatory fragments about the Azores islands from the perspective of an Italian traveler seeking something that he is yet to discover. Along the way, he collects legends, relics, and stories of the island-dwellers: an elegant married woman's love of an Azorean fisherman, glimpses of a whaling expedition and assorted shipwrecks, both figurative and real.Tags
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"Dama de Porto Pim" de Antonio Tabucchi es un libro que mezcla relatos, fragmentos y transcripciones sobre un viaje a las Azores, explorando la vida de los últimos balleneros y la melancolía de la desaparición de un mundo marítimo. Con una estructura fragmentaria, la obra combina realidad y ficción en una atmósfera evocadora.
Just an obscure little book about whale fishing in the Azores, specifically in Faial island.
Due temi seducenti in questo libretto: i naufragi, metafora dei fallimenti e dei rimpianti e le balene, che si fanno simbolo delle anime umane, che ognuno cela nel proprio abisso. I brevi racconti sono ambientati alle Azzorre, luogo di cacciatori di balene e approdo di naufraghi e il titolo riconduce proprio al piccolo porto Pim nell'isola di Faial.
Dec 9, 2010Italian
Petit llibre d'històries sobre les illes Açores. Interessant. El millor conte és Dona de Porto Pim.
Jan 29, 2022Catalan
Petites histoires poétiques autour des Açores et de la chasse à la baleine. Relire la femme de Porto Pom, la plus belle.
Feb 8, 2021French
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Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa, Italy on September 24, 1943. He studied literature and philosophy at the city's university. He was a writer and academic. He was professor of Portuguese literature at the University of Siena and the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. His works include Piazza d'Italia, Piccoli Equivoci Senza Importanza (Little show more Misunderstandings of No Importance), Requiem, uma Alucinaçaõ (Requiem: A Hallucination), Tristano Muore (Tristan Is Dying), and Racconti con Figure. Many of his works were adapted into films including Sostiene Pereira (Pereira Maintains) and Notturno Indiano (Indian Nocturne). In addition to his fictional writing, he translated works by Fernando Pessoa and other Portuguese writers into Italian. He received numerous literary prizes including the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France. In 1993, he was one of the founder members of the International Parliament of Writers and contributed articles to its journal, Autodafé. He died of cancer on March 25, 2012 at the age of 68. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Woman of Porto Pim
- Original title
- Donna di Porto Pim
- Original publication date
- 1983 (original Italian) (original Italian); 1991 (English: Parks) (English: Parks)
- Original language
- Italian
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- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 853.914 — Literature & rhetoric Italian, Romanian & related literatures Italian fiction 1900- 20th Century 1945-1999
- LCC
- PQ4880 .A24 .D6613 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Italian literature Individual authors, 1961-2000
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