In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

The President of Portugal appointed him the title Do Infante Dom Henrique in 1989 and that same year the French government named him a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. His first important novel Indian Nocturne was publiAntonio Tabucchid in 1984 and became the basis of a 1989 a film directed by Alain Corneau. Poetiche a posteriori (2003) ISBN 88-07-42098-8
Tristano muore.

In later life he was mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature a feat he never achieved. He was so charmed that back in Italy he attended a course of Portuguese language for a better comprehension of the poet.