Requiem

A Hallucination

Antonio Tabucchi, Margaret Jull Costa

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Penguin
15 July 2025

Memoirs; Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation; Travel writing

Series: Penguin Archive

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

'My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life'

It is a hot July Sunday in Lisbon and our narrator has an appointment to meet someone by the quayside. But when his guest does not arrive, he spends the day wandering the deserted city, encountering some memorable characters along the way- a disoriented taxi driver, an accordionist, a Seller of Stories and, finally, the long-awaited ghost of the late, great Fernando Pessoa.

By: Antonio Tabucchi
Translated by: Margaret Jull Costa
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 180mm, Width: 110mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 73g
ISBN: 9780241752234
ISBN 10: 024175223X
Series: Penguin Archive
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 15 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa, Italy in 1943. His critically acclaimed novels and short story collections include Little Misunderstandings of No Importance, Requiem: A Hallucination and Pereira Maintains, which won the Premio Campiello, Premio Viareggio and the Aristeion Prize amongst others. Tabucchi was professor at the University of Siena, and also taught at Bard College in New York, the Ecole de Hautes Etudes and the Collège de France in Paris. He died in Lisbon, his adopted home, in 2012.