Requiem A Hallucination [Paperback]

Beautifully translated...perhaps his most accessible work to date.Elegant, cosmopolitan, inventive and disquieting; his writing is, paradoxically, sensuous and economical.This imagined world is created with elegance and complexity.[Tabucchi's books are] economical surreal-comic novellas. There's a cosmopolitan eeriness here.Winner of the 1991 Italian PEN Prize, this playful bagatelle,translated from the original Portuguese, is partly an homage toPortuguese culture, partly a mellow autobiographical fantasy.[A] wonderful, enchanting tribute to the Portuguese poet FernandoPessoa... Aptly subtitled, this book brilliantly creates a story that, like adelicious cocktail, most readers will finish in one gulp and willreturn to savor.A private meeting, chance encounters, and a mysterious tour of Lisbon, in this brilliant homage to Fernando Pessoa.