- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (3 May 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002713268
- ISBN-13: 978-0002713269
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,364,756 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It is a boiling hot July day in Lisbon. Being a Sunday, most of the population has gone to the beach, leaving the narrator with the whole day to kill before he goes to meet a friend on a quay by the Tagus. Tabucchi is the author of "Indian Nocturne" and "Little Misunderstandings of No Importance".
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I took this book away as holiday reading and totally lost myself in the world created within the pages. It is beautifully written as it meanders through the bizarre day of meetings. Read it and lose yourself, then read it again to find the deatils you missed the first time through. I can't wait to read more of Tabucchi's work.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
An incredible journey throug Lisbon and authors Unconcius
23 Jun 1998
Format:Hardcover
This book suplies a very rich mix of portuguese culture, Lisbon City and a strugle of a narator to find meanings in his subconcient. The author takes the reader in a journey thoug Lisbon and at the same time in a journey to his memories, doubts and feelings, meeting people from his past, and characters that represent parts of him self, like the "seller of stories". All of wich is seasoned by the narrators love of the food of Portugal. Finally he gets to confront some realy important characters in his unconcient and ends up arguing whiht who we can supose to be Fernando Pessoa -a poet- or Sigmund Freud -a Psychiatrist- Reading this book gives me the feeling that the best things in life are the simple things, not meaning that all the rest must not be dealt with. If you like stories abuot the inside world of characters, you wil ask yourself how could so much be put in few pages, and at the same time be a special 'travel giude` to Lisbon.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Life is a dream
8 Dec 2001
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
The lightness of Tabucchi's Requiem makes it a very easy book to like. It helps to be at least a little bit familiar with the Portugese poet and author Fernando Pessoa who is the figure Tabucchi is to meet. The novella is very short (107 pages but lots of chapters so lots of white space and big print) and really more on the amusing than philosophical side. The little conversations read like little asides but soon one realizes that is what the book is, a little aside. There are some amusing references made about modern literature that could very well apply to the book we are reading and also a very interesting reference to a story written that later came true(a kind of mini meditation on how fact and fiction mimic each other or follow the same laws, the same could be said for life and dreams) but the book purposely stays on the surface of things. Food is the real center of the book. That is the most substantial and sustaining ritual at the heart of life, at least that apsect of life that is most real it seems to Tabucchi. So the books pages pass, each meeting a chance for conversations and most of the conversations are just small talk. Kind of like life. It is clear the events are all dreamed and so Tabucchi is free to talk to both friends and relations living and dead. But they say the same kinds of things to each other in the dream world that they did in real life. And the dream world is little different than the real world. That is the charm of the book. Life is a dream, so eat.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
One way to quiet one's ghosts
9 Aug 2000
Format:Hardcover
Requiem: A Hallucination is a book in which the narrator is obviously a persona of the author. The action takes place within a single day - the action being a dream, an hallucination of the narrator. The narrator is introduced as he is annoyed that the person he is to meet has missed their appointment at 12 noon - only to realize that 12 to a ghost is more likely midnight. The person he is to meet is not explicitly identified but is most likely the poet Pessoa.
The narrative then covers the time until the midnight meeting. In this time the narrator meets a drug addict in the park, a seller of lottery tickets, a gypsy who reads his fortune, a dead friend, a madame of an unsavory hotel, his deceased father, a barkeeper, a painter of details from the Temptation of St. Anthony, a lighthouse keeper's wife who is caretaker for a house in which he once lived, a former lover, a seller of stories, and finally the intended guest. Along the way one gathers recipes, literary history, a bit of philosophy ...
I highly recommend this book; it is an excellent text to first encounter Tabucchi.
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