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It‘s Getting Later All the Time (2001)

by Antonio Tabucchi

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From Italy, an epistolary novel like no other, full of Tabucchi's special "enchantment, which trans-figures even as it captivates" (TLS). InIt's Getting Later All the Time, an epistolary novel with a twist, Antonio Tabucchi"internationally acclaimed as the most original voice in the new generation of Italian writers" (The Harvard Book Review)revitalizes an illustrious tradition, only to break all its rules. Seventeen men write seventeen strangely beautiful letterstender or rancorouslonely monologues which move in circles, each describing an affair, and each desperate for a reply which may never come. The letters plunge the reader into an electric, timeless no-man's-land of "this past that is always somewhere, hanging in shreds." And at last, collecting all their one-sided, remorseful adventures into a single polyphonic novel, an 18th letter startlingly answers the men's pleas: a woman's voice, distant, implacable, yet full of sympathy.It's Getting Later All the Time captures destinies which, though so varied in appearance, are at rock bottom all the same: broken. This is an anti-Proustian noveltime lost is lost forever: it is impossible to get back to the past no matter how it haunts the present. As Tabucchi remarked, "Broken time is a dimension you find lots of men living in...an ambiguous, impossible situation, because they are faced with a kind of remorse, a choice they never made."… (more)
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Nota de Pamen en 1ª pág.: sept-2002
  aallegue | Feb 5, 2024 |
Ora con tenerezza, ora con sensualità, nostalgia, rimpianto, struggimento, rancore, ferocia o delirio, diciassette personaggi maschili attraverso diciassette lettere ad altrettante figure femminili, tessono i fili di un'insolita trama narrativa fatta di cerchi concentrici che paiono allargarsi nel nulla, povere voci monologanti forse avide di una risposta che non potrà mai venire. Ad esse risponde infine, raccogliendo le diverse vicende in un romanzo epistolare polifonico, una voce femminile distante, implacabile e allo stesso tempo colma di pena per loro. L'insieme è un percorso tra le passioni umane dove l'amore è l'illusorio punto centrale, in realtà punto di fuga che conduce verso le zone più oscure dell'animo.
  kikka62 | Mar 18, 2020 |
Magnetismo da libro

Ci sono dei libri che una volta iniziati ti trascinano con sé e non riesci più a liberartene.

Anche quando stai facendo qualcos’altro, li senti dentro di te e non vedi l’ora di riprenderne la lettura.

L’attrazione però non è data dalla curiosità di sapere come si svilupperà l’azione (che può anche essere totalmente assente), ma dal desiderio di tornare a quella voce, a quelle parole, a quel modo unico di esprimere le sensazioni.

“Si sta facendo sempre più tardi” è un tipico esempio di libro-virus che mi causa questa strana malattia dello spirito, che potrei chiamare “magnetismo da libro” e che determina, come effetto collaterale, uno straniamento dalla realtà circostante che non viene più percepita solamente attraverso i cinque sensi ma con un nuovo senso, una specie di vista ad infrarossi per cui improvvisamente ti accorgi di cose che non avevi mai notato e ti disinteressi completamente ad altre che ti sembrano ora così inutili e insignificanti.

Ecco, Tabucchi su di me ha il potere di svelare un mondo diverso. ( )
  lupita68 | Jul 16, 2012 |
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From Italy, an epistolary novel like no other, full of Tabucchi's special "enchantment, which trans-figures even as it captivates" (TLS). InIt's Getting Later All the Time, an epistolary novel with a twist, Antonio Tabucchi"internationally acclaimed as the most original voice in the new generation of Italian writers" (The Harvard Book Review)revitalizes an illustrious tradition, only to break all its rules. Seventeen men write seventeen strangely beautiful letterstender or rancorouslonely monologues which move in circles, each describing an affair, and each desperate for a reply which may never come. The letters plunge the reader into an electric, timeless no-man's-land of "this past that is always somewhere, hanging in shreds." And at last, collecting all their one-sided, remorseful adventures into a single polyphonic novel, an 18th letter startlingly answers the men's pleas: a woman's voice, distant, implacable, yet full of sympathy.It's Getting Later All the Time captures destinies which, though so varied in appearance, are at rock bottom all the same: broken. This is an anti-Proustian noveltime lost is lost forever: it is impossible to get back to the past no matter how it haunts the present. As Tabucchi remarked, "Broken time is a dimension you find lots of men living in...an ambiguous, impossible situation, because they are faced with a kind of remorse, a choice they never made."

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