Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchiwas an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 September 1943
CountryItaly
Antonio Tabucchi quotes about
ideas perfection doctrine
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
claims
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
war people grandfather
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.
running thinking museums
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.
book people engagement
My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
people satisfying
I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
rights doubt lists
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.
circles television want
I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
people literature dont-trust
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.
soul intellectual body
A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.
insomnia anaesthesia
I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
jobs looks politician
My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
fundamentals impossible values
There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.