Description - Tristano Dies by Antonio Tabucchi
One of the later novels from a master of contemporary Italian fiction, Tristano Dies is a vibrant consideration of death, war, and the instability of the past, of memory, and of the act of storytelling.
It is a sultry August at the very end of the twentieth century, and Tristano is dying. A hero of the Italian Resistance, Tristano has called a writer to his bedside to listen to his life story, though, really, "you don't tell a life...you live a life, and while you're living it, it's already lost, has slipped away."Tristano Dies, one of Antonio Tabucchi's major novels, is a vibrant consideration of love, war, devotion, betrayal, and the instability of the past, of storytelling, and what it means to be a hero.
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