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Pereira - Antonio Tabucchi - Feltrinelli

Pereira - Antonio Tabucchi - Feltrinelli

In 1938, a few months after the outbreak of World War II, a journalist was one of the more difficult that a man could do. Doing it in Lisbon, Portugal, the nation affiliated with the fascist General Franco, just as they fought the civil war in neighboring Spain, was even more difficult. To be cautious, balanced and circumspect in the use of words in choosing subject matter, all this was exactly what he was doing a small Portuguese journalist named Pereira. Censorship was still there and the police knew to be very "convincing" with those who were allowed to write against Salazar and against his regime.

Pereira was a young reporter for a small newspaper, the Lisboa, and directs the culture page that took care alone, without any of the partners. He just occasions to write stories about writers who died or translating French writers 800. A reporter quietly, not wanting to Rogne went to seek it, without real friends, without women. But something changed in his life: take a young employee, just graduated, a revolutionary, a subversive, would break away first, but fails, Pereira finds itself in the urge to have to help him, he feels is the right thing to do. The small

journalist becomes a great story, a story in which an ordinary man decides he wants to change things, you know to have the means and does not flinch, he understands that a middle-aged man can still change, can still live without remain anchored to a past life, a life that will never return.

Antonio Tabucchi is inspired by the life of a real journalist, lived in Portugal and then fled to France before the outbreak of war, gives him the name "Pereira" and tells the story, because it's an important story to tell, a story that still today can shake the souls of those who think that the individual can no longer affect, that things can not change. The courage of the journalist is all in a gesture, a word in its name, put pen to paper to denounce the crimes of a regime that had acted for too long hidden by ignorance and indifference of the people "[. ..] went to the head and below, right, put his name Pereira. "

Written by: Andrea Gaetani