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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XVII , n° 2, Dicembre 1999 ( Contributi ) pag. 140-149
DUALISM, HIERARCHY, AND NARRATIVE STRUCTURE:
ANTONIO TABUCCHI'S
LA TESTA PERDUTA DI DAMASCENO MONTEIRO
ROMANA CAPEK-HABEKOVIC
University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
In a note at the end of his novel La testa perduta di Damasceno
Monteiro (Milano: Feltrinelli, 1997) Tabucchi explains that the narrative fabric of his novel, which includes characters, locations, and situations, is a product of his imagination, but that the inspiration for the novel came to him from a real crime that took place on the seventh of May in 19961. On that day a Portuguese citizen, Carlos Rosa, twenty-five years old, was murdered at a police headquarter in the periphery of Lisbon. His decapitated and tortured body was discovered in a public park. In a reference to the title of the novel the author clarifies that the name Damasceno Monteiro stems from a street similarly named in Lisbon on which he used to live. In this endnote to
the novel Tabucchi not only points out the actual event that inspired him to write his novel, in many aspects similar to a classical thriller, but also reassures his readers that what they have just read is indeed well grounded in reality. [...]
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