Like a portuguese version of as i lay dying, but more ambit. A feverish chronicle of family disintegration rendered as an exhilarating cacophony of conflicting voices. When he wanted to study psychiatry he went to study at a london hospital, solely because that is where somerset maugham had worked. He has been called a novelist of the very first rank.
The splendor of portugals four narrators are members of a once welltodo family whose plantation was lost in the angolan war of independence. We spend the entire book following a torrent of memories that washes over and around and through glimpses of the present. Many of the characters talk directly to the inquisitors, among them, lina, joaos girlfriend after his. You have remained in right site to start getting this info. I was greeted by a youthful, balding, 66yearold, with slate blue eyes the color of his denim shirt. He is the brother of joao lobo antunes and manuel lobo antunes. T he land at the end of the world is poor little portugal, backed on to a thin slice of the iberian peninsula by boisterous spain. The message in dad s bottle download ebook pdf, epub. He has been married to cristina ferreira almeida since may 19, 2010. The inquisitors manual antonio lobo antunes, richard zenith on.
Nearing the end of his life in a lisbon nursing home, former state minister and friend of portuguese dictator salazar ruminates on his inept son, illegitimate daughter, and the revolution that ended the. Buy act of the damned antunes, antonio lobo 1st pbk. Conhecimento do inferno knowledge of hell if you have read any of antunes later works, you will not be surprised with this book, a uniformly bleak view of the world and of portugal in particular. But the more apt comparison may be to turkish novelist orhan pamuk, whose novels, for all their philosophies. Antonio lobo antunes agreed to meet me in his hotel on park avenue south on a sunny afternoon.
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