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Archipelago Books

Time Ages In a Hurry

Time Ages In a Hurry

by Antonio Tabucchi, translated from the Italian by Antonio Romani and Martha Cooley

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As the collection's title suggests, time's passage is the fil rouge of these stories. All of Tabucchi's characters struggle to find routes of escape from a present that is hard to bear, and from places in which political events have had deeply personal ramifications for their own lives.

Each of the nine stories in Time Ages in a Hurry is an imaginative inquiry into something hidden or disguised, which can be uncovered not by reason but only by feeling and intuition, by what isn't said. Disquieted and disoriented yet utterly human in their loves and fears, the characters in these vibrant and often playful stories suffer from what Tabucchi once referred to as a "corrupted relationship with history." Each protagonist must confront phantoms from the past, misguided or false beliefs, and the deepest puzzles of identity--and each in his or her own way ends up experiencing "an infinite sense of liberation, as when finally we understand something we'd known all along and didn't want to know."

Additional Book Information

Series: Archipelago Books
ISBN: 9780914671053
Pages: 140
Publication Date:

Praise

A pensive, beautifully written meditation on personhood and nationhood in the new age of European unity. […] Many of the characters in this joined collection—something more than short stories but not quite a novel—are stateless and uprooted; they come from somewhere else, and they’re never quite at home where they are. […] A pleasure [...] for fans of modern European literature.
—Kirkus Reviews

Exposing memory for the fiction it is, these wonderful stories produce a melancholic nostalgia even as they undermine it.
—Publishers Weekly

This splendid collection of stories by Antonio Tabucchi, one of Italy's most original and admired writers, is a delight to read. Tabucchi's fertile and offbeat imagination ranges over a broad spectrum of themes—family, aging, war, travel—always approached obliquely, teasing, engaging, and above all rewarding the reader. The translation by Martha Cooley and Antonio Romani is acutely sensitive to the rhythms of Tabucchi's fluid sentences and the uncanny nature of his sensibility.
—Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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