Short-a-Day: Antonio Tabbuchi's "The Dead at the Table"
Originally published in A Public Space, No. 6, 2008. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 33.[Translated by Will Schutt as part of the FOCUS: Italy series.]Ah, the Wall! How he missed the Wall! There it stood: solid, concrete, marking a boundary, branding one for life, assuring one of belonging. Thanks to a wall one belongs to something, to this side or that. At least he knew where to go when Renate was still aliv…