Piazza d'Italia (novel)
1975 novel by Antonio Tabucchi
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Piazza d'Italia is the 1975 debut novel of the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. It is a short picaresque novel that spans from the Italian unification to the fascist era and follows Volturno Banarchist, a rebel and occasional clairvoyant. It was first published by Bompiani.[1][2][3]
| Author | Antonio Tabucchi |
|---|---|
| Language | Italian |
| Genre | picaresque novel |
| Publisher | Bompiani |
| Publication date | 1975 |
| Publication place | Italy |
| Pages | 134 |
The scholar Rocco Capozzi describes Banarchist as the model for the type of socially conscious protagonist that would recur throughout Tabucchi's literary career.[4]