Knowledge of hell by antonio lobo antunes, clifford e. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Conhecimento do inferno 1980 knowledge of hell available in english. Its action occurs seven years after a communist revolution that confiscated the property of lisbons landed aristocracy and drove its possessors into exile in. He has been called a novelist of the very first rank. The narrator of this stark and elegantly translated novel is a psychiatrist named antonio lobo antunes, returning from vacation to his loathed. Its a strong and instantly recognizable identity for the series, and i appreciate the way alvoeiro integrated accents into. I have read both and like saramago a lot and i think of him as a good choice. But the more apt comparison may be to turkish novelist orhan pamuk, whose novels, for all their philosophies, never disconnect from a.
Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. 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. Lobo antunes is an excellent writer who writes with verve and a ferocious and a extremely sharp and sarcastic wit. By the end of his education he had to join the army, to take part in the war in angola, from 1970 to 1973. The splendor of portugals four narrators are members of a once welltodo family whose plantation was lost in the angolan war of independence. A feverish chronicle of family disintegration rendered as an exhilarating cacophony of conflicting voices. Knowledge of hell by antonio lobo antunes fantastic fiction. Isbn 9789879397688 9789879397688 softcover, literatura mondadori, 2007. A household name in portugal, a celebrity across the latin world and an icon in. Portuguese author antonio lobo antunes is the author of more than twenty books, including the novels the return of the caravels, knowledge of hell, the natural order of things, the inquisitors manual, and what can i do when everythings on fire. Like a character out of faulkners decayed south, the mother clings to the hope that. His style is dense and sometimes disorienting, with multiple narrative voices jostling for space on the page. Find signed collectible books by antonio loboantunes spanish.
In knowledge of hell, a narrator who shares the name and biography of author antonio lobo antunes leaves the vacation town of quinta da balaia and drives through the portuguese countryside toward lisbon, to return to his duties as a psychiatrist at miguel bombarda mental hospital. Like his creator, the narrator of this novel is a psychiatrist wh. The portuguese writer was in new york for just a few days after a twenty year absence. Buy act of the damned antunes, antonio lobo 1st pbk. The second lieutenant in fado alexandrino is a masterpiece. At the age of seven, antonio lobo antunes decided to be a writer but when he was 16, his father sent him to medical school he is a psychiatrist. Landers, antonio lobo antunes 1980 portuguese novel knowledge of hell will probably be lumped in with the work of other romancelanguage magical realists like gabriel garcia marquez. Antonio lobo antunes, gcse, md portuguese pronunciation. The narrator of this stark and elegantly translated novel is a psychiatrist named antnio lobo antunes, returning from vacation to his loathed job at miguel bombarda hospital in lisbon. Antonio lobo antunes was born in lisbon, portugal in 1942. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.
Some of lobo antuness earlier books seem too laceratingly confessional to be called fiction at all. He began writing as a child, but at his fathers wishes, went to medical school instead of pursuing a career in writing. The natural order of things is a tale of two families and the secrets that bind them. The thesis looks at the different ways in which lobo antunes oeuvre articulates the. Home portugal antonio lobo antunes conhecimento do inferno knowledge of hell. He was rumored and expected by some to win the nobel the same year that his fellow portugese jose saramago did. Its safe to say that antonio lobo antunes s novel knowledge of hell wont get him invited to deliver the keynote speech at any psychoanalytic conferences.
That he remains amongst the living is an achievement in itself one can only assume he possesses an amazingly developed black humour and an incredible capacity to turn anxiety into a black joke. Knowledge of hell antonio lobo antunes, clifford e. After completing his studies, antunes was sent to angola with the portuguese army. Antonio lobo antunes agreed to meet me in his hotel on park avenue south on a sunny afternoon. South of nowhere antonio lobo antunes granta magazine. Like his creator, the narrator of this novel is a psychiatrist who loathes psychiatry, a veteran of the despised 1970s colonial war waged by portugal against. Buy knowledge of hell by antonio lobo antunes, clifford e. Antuness third published novel, conhecimento do inferno 1980. Antonio lobo antunes, who has been called one of portugals preeminent writers by the new york. Modernism, joyce, and portuguese literature purdue epubs. The land at the end of the world by antonio lobo antunes.
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Antonio lobo antunes has an incredible capacity to write despair into every line. I was greeted by a youthful, balding, 66yearold, with slate blue eyes the color of his denim shirt. The voices of antunes characters an army officer being tortured in prison on charges of conspiracy. Antonio lobo antunes ebooks epub and pdf downloads. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. 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. He has been married to cristina ferreira almeida since may 19, 2010. Knowledge of hell by antonio lobo antunes, paperback.