Sostiene Pereira: the crisis of the intellectual between history and literature

Abstract

The article attempts to show that the stricture that Tabucchi had written un roman à these on the socialist or realist model misses the point, as the story told in the novel is neither about a Lukacsian 'hero' nor about the forward march of the oppressed but is in fact an attentive analysis of the crisis of the intellectual observed at a specific moment in history.