It's Getting Later All the Time

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It's Getting Later All the Time
AuthorAntonio Tabucchi
Original titleSi sta facendo sempre più tardi
TranslatorAlastair McEwen
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian
PublisherFeltrinelli
Publication date
2001
Published in English
2006
Pages228
ISBN88-07-01590-0

It's Getting Later All the Time (Italian: Si sta facendo sempre più tardi) is a 2001 novel by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. It has the form of an epistolary novel, and consists of letters from 17 men to former lovers, and a single letter with the response to all of them.

Reception[edit]

Andrew Ervin wrote in The New York Times: "Taken linearly, these letters ... don't make any more sense than scenes in a Fellini movie. But, as with 8 [sic] or Amarcord, to look for logic is to miss the point. ... The subtle relationships between the letters turn out to be more thematic than literal, though they eventually come together in a brilliantly unexpected way."[1]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Ervin, Andrew (2006-09-24). "Fiction Chronicle". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-03-06.