Pereira Maintains [Paperback]

Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose anti-fascist fervor is as strong as Pereiras apolitical languor. Eventually, breaking out of the shell of his own inhibitions, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroismand this arc is one of the most intriguing and appealing character studies in recent European fiction (Extraordinary novel.Tabucchis prose creates a deep, near-profound and sometimes heart-wrenching nostalgia and constantly evokes the pain of recognizing the speed of lifes passing which everyone knows but few have the strength to accept.A work in the high aesthetic mode, a historical novel cast in delicately evocative prose and filled with witty references to the great figures of modern European literature. In it Italians could examine their political consciences through an artful image of another countrys past. The pleasures to be had fromA masterpiece of compression.Tabucchis masterpiece conjures a state between waking and dreaming (