A Constant State of Foreignness

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the writer and translator Chiara Marchelli to revisit the work of Antonio Tabucchi, a master of the uncanny, ten years after his death; and the multilingual critic Irina Dumitrescu discusses a poignant study of bilingualism that considers how mother tongues are lost and found and at what cost‘Little Misunderstandings of No Importance: And other stories’, by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Frances Frenaye‘Requiem: A hallucination’, by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Margaret Jull Costa‘Pereira Maintains: A testimony’, by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Patrick Creagh‘Memory Speaks: On losing and reclaiming language and self’ by Julie SedivyProduced by Sophia Franklin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.