“Beh, disse la signora Delgado, lei è un intellettuale, dica quello che sta succedendo in Europa, esprima il suo libero pensiero, insomma faccia qualcosa. Sostiene Pereira che avrebbe voluto...”
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Antonino Tabucchi (Pisa, 24 settembre 1943 – Lisbona, 25 marzo 2012) è stato uno scrittore, critico letterario, traduttore e lusista italiano, divulgatore della lingua e letteratura portoghese che insegnò dalla cattedra di cui era titolare all'Università di Siena. È ritenuto il maggior esperto di Fernando Pessoa, scrittore in ragione del quale Tabucchi apprese la lingua, grazie a Maria José de Lancastre, sua moglie, originaria del Portogallo. I suoi libri e saggi sono tradotti in circa venti lingue. Con sua moglie, ha tradotto in italiano molte delle opere di Fernando Pessoa e, su di esso, ha scritto anche un libro di saggi e una commedia teatrale. Ha ottenuto il premio francese Médicis étranger per *Notturno indiano* e i premi Campiello e Viareggio per S*ostiene Pereira.* ---------- Antonino Tabucchi (Pisa, 24 September 1943 – Lisbon, 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer, literary critic, translator and Lusist, a populariser of the Portuguese language and literature who taught from his chair at the University of Siena. He is considered the leading expert on Fernando Pessoa, the writer who inspired Tabucchi to learn the language, thanks to his wife, Maria José de Lancastre, who was originally from Portugal. His books and essays have been translated into about twenty languages. With his wife, he translated many of Fernando Pessoa's works into Italian and also wrote a book of essays and a play about him. He won the French Médicis étranger prize for *Notturno indiano* and the Campiello and Viareggio prizes for *Sostiene Pereira*. Source: [Wikipedia](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Tabucchi)
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“Beh, disse la signora Delgado, lei è un intellettuale, dica quello che sta succedendo in Europa, esprima il suo libero pensiero, insomma faccia qualcosa. Sostiene Pereira che avrebbe voluto...”
“Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.”
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“In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.”
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“Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.”
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“Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.”
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“I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.”
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“I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.”
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“Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first ta...”
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“I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.”
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