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drifterontherun's review
2.0
This is a beautiful book, full of lovely illustrations. Unfortunately, the words inside fail to lift it to anything more than that.
I'm a big fan of nearly all the Italian writers I've had the pleasure of reading, but based on this effort, Antonio Tabucchi isn't one of them. These stories are far too flighty. They're barely there before they're not. I'd forgotten most of them as soon as I'd turned the page.
It's a shame because the physical book itself really is lovely, something that kept me reading far longer than I should have. Maybe I'll keep it. It'll look nice on the shelf alongside all my other Archipelago titles, but I don't expect to open it again.
Stories with Pictures? Pictures with Stories is more like it.
I'm a big fan of nearly all the Italian writers I've had the pleasure of reading, but based on this effort, Antonio Tabucchi isn't one of them. These stories are far too flighty. They're barely there before they're not. I'd forgotten most of them as soon as I'd turned the page.
It's a shame because the physical book itself really is lovely, something that kept me reading far longer than I should have. Maybe I'll keep it. It'll look nice on the shelf alongside all my other Archipelago titles, but I don't expect to open it again.
Stories with Pictures? Pictures with Stories is more like it.
hudnut80's review
3.0
I could have given this an extra star just because of this one paragraph:
What should be our place of origin on this questionnaire you want us to fill out? We could say we're from the stellar regions, but that wouldn't be precise. Let's use astronomical terms, though, so you can understand, in the end, it's always a matter of the abyss: let's just say we're from the unchartered territories that astronomers call black holes but that you carry within yourselves. And so, to you, we're millions of light years away, yet at the same time, we're beneath your skin, we're your inside that's now on the outside, watching you. We're your pattern, in a way, your imprint, your beginning. And possibly your end as well, but who can say.
What should be our place of origin on this questionnaire you want us to fill out? We could say we're from the stellar regions, but that wouldn't be precise. Let's use astronomical terms, though, so you can understand, in the end, it's always a matter of the abyss: let's just say we're from the unchartered territories that astronomers call black holes but that you carry within yourselves. And so, to you, we're millions of light years away, yet at the same time, we're beneath your skin, we're your inside that's now on the outside, watching you. We're your pattern, in a way, your imprint, your beginning. And possibly your end as well, but who can say.
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