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A review by drifterontherun
Stories with Pictures by Antonio Tabucchi
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.