Charles Klopp

Antonio Tabucchi: Postmodern Catholic Writer

celebrated novelist of the last two decades. The winner of several literary prizes in his home country, he has also garnered enthusiastic readers in France, Britain, the U.S., and Portugal. A professor, in fact, of Portuguese literature and an authority on the writings of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Tabucchi has set a significant amount of his fiction both in Lisbon and in such former outposts of the Portuguese empire as the Azores, Angola, and Goa (though not, as yet, Brazil). One of his novels, Requiem of 1991, originally appeared in Portuguese and