Since Italo Calvino's death in 1985, Antonio Tabucchi has emerged as the novelist that best exemplifies Italian narrative at the turn of the century. Tabucchi in some measure follows in the path blazed by Calvino in that his writing continues in the...

Antonio Tabucchi. By CLAUDIO PEZZIN. Sommacampagna (Verona): CIERRE Edizioni. 2000. 115 pp. 9.3 [euro]. The fiction of Antonio Tabucchi has received much critical attention over the years, and the many different approaches that have been taken to his work highlight the difficulty...

Antonio Tabucchi is often dubbed as Italy's most celebrated novelist since the 1970s. Tabucchi is classified as a postmodern writer since his writings reflect his doubt of the continuing dynamism of the literary forms that prevailed during the time of his predecessors even as...