Lisbon's Many Faces in a Photographic Book

The volume 'Lisboa Lisboa' (Il Canneto Editore, 2021) pairs an unpublished text by Antonio Tabucchi with black-and-white photographs by Fulvio Magurno, both created in the 1990s. Tabucchi's brief, intense homage describes Lisbon as poetic, anarchic, socialist, and full of literary cafés. Magurno, a Sicilian photographer adopted by Genoa, shot his series in 1992, evoking surrealist atmospheres through details, shop windows, statues, and reflections—never direct portraits. The book captures a nostalgic, almost cemetery-like mood of a city that has since transformed. Tabucchi's text includes a quote: 'quem não viu lisboa não viu coisa boa' (who hasn't seen Lisbon hasn't seen anything good).