The members of the Reading Circle chose to discuss the novel Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi (Christian Bourgois, 1995). The novel received the Campiello Prize and the Viareggio Prize upon its release in Italy in 1994.
Book Presentation
Lisbon, 1938. In the atmosphere of pre-war Portugal, in a city sweltering in the heat, Pereira begins to understand the world around him. A journalist suffering from writer's block, he stumbles upon a philosophical article by Francesco Monteiro Rossi while searching for an idea for the cultural page of the newspaper Lisboa. This young man, whom Pereira meets that very evening, turns out to be a revolutionary, a fervent anti-fascist… This encounter soon takes Pereira's life in an unexpected direction, one he himself could never have foreseen…
Lisbon, 1938. In the atmosphere of pre-war Portugal, in a city sweltering in the heat, Pereira begins to understand the world around him. A journalist suffering from writer's block, he stumbles upon a philosophical article by Francesco Monteiro Rossi while searching for an idea for the cultural page of the newspaper Lisboa. This young man, whom Pereira meets that very evening, turns out to be a revolutionary, a fervent anti-fascist… This encounter soon takes Pereira's life in an unexpected direction, one he himself could never have foreseen…
