Il Portogallo di Antonio Tabucchi: dalla metafora all'etica

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse and comment on the meaning of Portugal in three novels of the Italian writer: Requiem: Un’allucinazione, Sostiene Pereira, and La testa perduta di Damesceno Monteiro. The author of the paper demonstrates how Tabucchi uses the image of Portugal to discuss the ethical dimension of three issues: language, the individual vs. the state, and literature vs. law.

Keywords

• Tabucchi
• Portugal
• state
• politics
• law
• metaphor
• ethics