"According to Pereira," Antonio Tabucchi 
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what he has to say " as Calvin for the classics, and the definition goes to the full 'Pereira' Antonio Tabucchi. A novel that does not hesitate to describe as 'extraordinary' and is perceived dall'incipit (
supports Pereria to have known him in a summer day. A beautiful day summer, sunny, breezy, and sparkled Lisbon "); from prose, punctuated by quell'intercalare, 'he declares
' note, that drags the reader that you will always grab attention, the character 'Pereira' which reflects the common man rocked by internal struggle with his ego that demands space in a social context of oppression, violence, silence ("
.. the fact is that I had a question: what if those two guys they were right? (...) then my life would not make sense .. "); the choice to contextualize the action in August of '38 when it's blown the insane policy of Hitler in Portugal has the ' friendship, Spain has been rocked by civil war and the whole of Europe is close to collapse of the Second World War.
Pereira is a journalist, middle-aged widower, who has been assigned the culture page of a new newspaper. It 's summer in the country and now you feel overwhelmed by the heat the absence of freedom, a valuable ally of the normal time young people full of hopes and dreams, the same that Pereira had grown in Coimbra, with friends at university, the same wife. Life, however, has passed almost without accorgerse, thirty years to deal with crime, then his wife's death, the thought never occurred to her son and the sudden suspicion on the faces of people, the whispering sketchy, the police, the military on the streets, all while young people were dying elsewhere in the name of freedom. Pereira is used, believes that his is a position of privilege, the illusion of being out of the fray because he writes about literature but is not as sudden and inevitable, the reality is revealed in front of the young Monteiro Rossi and his girlfriend Marta . Young, idealistic, rebellious and yet seems to think Pereira real brave souls, decided to face the OCUR form of power, the dictatorship to live the present, become part of history. And 'the apparent recklessness of youth to push the old Pereira to reflect on its role in society, its RESPONSIBILITY as a man and as a journalist. ". . She's an intellectual, says what is happening in Europe, to express his freedom of thought, in short, do something (...) just have the will." During summer Pereira regains its soul, an accomplice of the absurdity of violence, redeems his sloth making a bold gesture of shiny, make it in writing and publishing an article mocking the objection of termination of the regime, 'a journalist assassinated '.
Pereira .. is a kind of defense in front of the court of the soul, a disarming complaint of responsibility that every man at some time in their lives is called upon to take on the most is the complaint of illogic to live in a social and political context which deprives day after day the man of the essential rights to which it is essential to put a stop to take a position becomes a duty. The book is disarming and topical ". . Must be free and to inform the people properly .
".. drafts of his paper passes through the imprimatur of prior censorship, and if there is something wrong that is quiet but not published, perhaps leaving a blank space, I've already been to see the papers Portuguese with the ample white space, make a great rage and great sadness . Read Tabucchi-as well as give full awareness of what means to use words and do it well-push to fill up a page in life as written .. white space.
Coins .. a handful of coins thrown into the air as the last breath of life as a warrior survived the siege of Akragas. And 'the 406 a. C. and Carthage have won the enemy destroyed the city. It will happen again, it is December 28, 1908 this time is the nature of a rebel: a violent earthquake destroyed the city of Messina. To thank the rescuers a noble gives a coin found by chance the commander of a Russian military ship. The coin collection arricchierà the Tsar. Goes on to eagle, the other a crab and a fish. Only a year later, while digging in a field a farmer finds a coin, you know that the village doctor, who oversaw the first years saving his leg, makes collection disobbligarsi wants to give him. Ignores its value but Dr. Gibilaro for the emotion, the only sfiolarla, fell down from his horse and broke his leg, he knows that the money belongs to the last Akragas, knows what it might mean to scholars. Forced to shut the pool, kept at that of Palermo, weeks after returning to town discovers the murder of the farmer and the bitterness of having lost, perhaps forever, the chance to own the precious currency. But who killed the poor Cosimo? About stole the money? Among men in flight, clumsy fences, PS delegates, journalists and emissaries of the court unravels the mystery of money unless a Akragas doubt that hovers in the mind of Dr. Gibilaro, maybe that " money is expressing his desire not to reappear in the world, to return back into the land from which one day they pulled out. " 
