A Constant State of Foreignness




The TLS Podcast show

Summary: 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 Sedivy Produced by Sophia Franklin  <br><hr><p style="color: grey;">See <a style="color: grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>