Best Wishes

Antonio Tabucchi is well known for his postmodern narratives framed through multiple para-texts, verging on different genres, and teeming with intertextual references, recurring characters, and self-quotations. Although they usually revolve around a central mystery, question, or dilemma, Tabucchi's texts often lack closure and defer resolution. Isabel, the presumably dead (gone, missing) wife of Taddeo, the protagonist in “Best Wishes,” is first introduced in the novel Indian Nocturne. Isabel and Taddeo reappear in several short stories and in Tabucchi's novel Requiem, but their story remains fragmentary, tangled, mysterious. “Best Wishes” is the opening story in the collection Racconti con figure (Stories with figures), and as such it articulates some of the volume's key themes—nostalgia, travel, and visual images as well as reality and its artistic representation

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