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Requiem - A Hallucination (Paperback)
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Requiem - A Hallucination (Paperback)
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Loot Price R212
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'A funny, sad novella about how we got here from there, and how, in
our youth, "our eyes saw things differently"' The Times A private
meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt
this moving homage to Tabucchi's adopted city In the city of
Lisbon, Requiem's narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a
quay by the Tagus at twelve. Misunderstanding twelve to mean noon
as opposed to midnight, he is left to wait. As the day unfolds he
has many unexpected encounters - with a young drug addict, a
disorientated taxi driver, a cemetery keeper, the mysterious Isabel
and the ghost of the late great poet Fernando Pessoa - each meeting
travelling between the real and illusionary. Part travelogue, part
autobiography, part fiction, Requiem becomes an homage to a country
and its people, and a farewell to the past as the narrator lays
claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is an evasive and
many-sided personality. 'Tabucchi is a master of illusion and
allusion, and this is a literary puzzle that teases, amuses and
provokes' Sunday Telegraph
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