The work of Antonio Tabucchi, one of Italys greatest contemporary writers, is permeated with the topic of individual identity. His texts query the self-perception, the relation with the Other and the relation with the historical and cultural world while expressing at all these levels an experience of dissolution. Luomo inquieto. Identit e alterit nellopera di Antonio Tabucchi (The Anxious Man. Identity and Alterity in the Work of A. Tabucchi) offers a textual analysis of a series of figures and motives using M. Bachtins concept of dialogism and G. Vattimos weak thought a starting point. The...