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Antonio Tabucchi
 
Date of birth: 23 September 1943
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: Italy
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Writer

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   Antonio Tabucchi (born on September 23, 1943) is an Italian writer and academic who teaches Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy.

Deeply in love with Portugal, he is an expert, critic and translator of the works of the writer Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronomouses. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that, back in Italy .... (More...)
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" An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. "

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" As a writer, I've always been interested in others. "

Antonio Tabucchi
" But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. "

Antonio Tabucchi
" But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions. "

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" But remember that during the Kosovo war, writers could express themselves freely, which I think was a very good thing. "

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" Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts. "

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" 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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" 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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" For heaven's sake, if we don't have any doubts, we're finished! "

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" I claim the right to take a stand once in a while. "

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" I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives. "

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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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" I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves. "

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" I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles. "

Antonio Tabucchi
" I live quietly at home among my family and friends. "

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