Rui S., a political historian, is unable to accept the circumstances of his life: his mother's death from cancer, his estrangement from his family, his rejection by his first wife and children, his political vacillations and his ambigious feelings for his second wife.

An Explanation of the Birds

Literature & Fiction

António Lobo Antunes

Contemporary

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

The Natural Order of Things

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Henry Holt Co.

"The Splendor of Portugal"'s four narrators are members of a once well-to-do family whose plantation was lost in the Angolan War of Independence; the matriarch of this unhappiest of clans and her three adult children speak in a nightmarish, remorseless gush to give us the details of their grotesque family life. Like a character out of Faulkner's decayed south, the mother clings to the hope that her children will come back, save her from destitution, and restore the family's imagined former glory. The children, for their part, haven't seen each other in years, and in their isolation are tormented by feverish memories of Angola. The vitriol and self-hatred of the characters know no bounds, for they are at once victims and culprits, guilty of atrocities committed in the name of colonialism as well as the cruel humiliations and betrayals of their own kin. Antunes again proves that he is the foremost stylist of his generation, a fearless investigator into the worst excesses of the human animal.

The Splendor of Portugal (Portuguese Literature)

Literary

Dalkey Archive Press

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 Angola, a survivor of a failed marriage, and a man seeking meaning in an uncaring and venal society. The reader joins that narrator on a journey, both real and phantasmagorical, from his Algarve vacation back to Lisbon and the mental-hospital job he hates. In the course of one long day and evening, he carries on an imaginary conversation with his daughter Joanna, observes with surreal vision the bleak countryside of his nation, recalls the horrors of his involuntary role in the suppression of Angolan independence, and curses the charlatanism of contemporary psychiatric “advances” that destroy rather than heal.

Knowledge of Hell

The Return of the Caravels (Chinese Edition)

Yilin Press

In an exploration of the limits of identity and its dissolution on the borders between life and death, a man recalls his parents, a transvestite and the woman who tried to remain close to both father and son as their lives diverged.

Que Hari Cuando Todo Arde? (Spanish Edition)

Emecé

Nao Entres Tao Depressa Nessa Noite Escura (Spanish Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

DOM QUIXOTE

A presente edi&ccedil,&atilde,o resulta de uma selec&ccedil,&atilde,o &ndash, da exclusiva responsabilidade do editor &ndash, do &laquo,Livro de Crónicas&raquo, de António Lobo Antunes, publicado em 1998 e actualmente em 5ª edi&ccedil,&atilde,o. Com ela pretende o editor dar a ler a um público ainda mais vasto algumas das m

Algumas Cronicas

Obras Completas

A memória das experiências vividas durante a guerra em Angola. A partir de um encontro nocturno, num bar, do narrador com uma mulher, sem nome e sem voz, surge num longo monólogo o percurso de um médico militar que, depois de passar vinte e sete meses em Angola a servir o exército colonial, a reconstituir os corpos explodidos na guerra ou a assistir à sua agonia, regressa à metrópole, perdido numa angústia sem saída.

Os Cus de Judas

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