![]() ![]() In the story, he intersperses many deep passages from the fictitious book. (The author, who writes in German, is Swiss and has been a philosophy professor.) The narrator goes back to retrace the life of the Portuguese author and finds he is deceased. He quits his dull job of many years (in the same school he attended as a boy) and hops a train to Lisbon even though he doesn’t even speak Portuguese. She is Portuguese and he then begins reading a work by a Portuguese author and becomes obsessed with finding out about the author. One day he stops a despondent young woman from jumping off a bridge. A teacher of dead languages (Latin, Greek) at a Swiss prep school has no real friends or even much of a life to speak of.
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