Antonio Tabucchi

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Italian writer, translator and professor of Portuguese literature, best known for the novel Sostiene Pereira.

Born 24 April 1943, died 25 March 2012. Professor of Portuguese literature at the University of Siena. Known for translations of Portuguese literature and a long-standing interest in Fernando Pessoa.

The review of Sostiene Pereira follows an ordinary man's moral awakening under Salazar's regime. It highlights censorship, hidden resistance, and Pereira's eventual act of denunciation and flight to France. The book is framed as a modest Don Quixote's quest for redemption.