Between fiction and ethnography: Tabucchi's Gli Zingari e Il Rinascimento: Vivere da Rom a Firenze

My reading of Tabucchi's Gli Zingari e il Rinascimento: Vivere da Rom a Firenze, seeks to show how Tabucchi's text is indebted to, and critical of, a history of ethnographic observation of the "other." My goal is to trace this debt and critique through the text as it plays itself out through Tabucchi's narrativization of a (female) anthropologist's arrival at, dwelling in, and departure from "the field.".