Antonio Tabucchi, géographie d'un écrivain

Born in Pisa in 1943, Antonio Tabucchi has written many stories and novels. Is he really Italian ? He is, in any case, one of the most European of contemporary writers. He writes not only in Italian, but in French and Portuguese as well. Politically active, he was one of the founders of the International Writers Parliament in the early 90s and has taken many public stands, thus extending the main preoccupations of his books, the individual's responsibility in the face of history. His latest, apparently epistolary novel, in which reality adopts the guise of fiction, inversely shows the impossibility of accepting the ordinary, the normality of one's condition and the narrowness of a language. We see Tabucchi teaching poetry at the university, as playwright, and as a writer in the bars and cafes of Lisbon and Paris.