I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

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• Antonio Tabucchi:

  I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, whi

• Antonio Tabucchi:

  I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

• Antonio Tabucchi:

  I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

• Antonio Tabucchi:

  In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be

• Antonio Tabucchi:

  It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

• Antonio Tabucchi:

  It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the w

• Antonio Tabucchi:

  Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

• Antonio Tabucchi:

  Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point o

• Antonio Tabucchi:

  My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

• Antonio Tabucchi:

  My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.