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Books by António Lobo Antunes






The Splendor of Portugal(1st Edition)
(Portuguese Literature Series)
by António Lobo Antunes, Rhett Mcneil
Paperback, 535 Pages, Published 2011 by Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-423-0, ISBN: 1-56478-423-1

"From the author The New Yorker hails as “one of the most skillful psychological portraitists writing anywhere.” 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 c ..."






The Land at the End of the World(1st Edition)
A Novel
by António Lobo Antunes, Margaret Jull Costa
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-07776-6, ISBN: 0-393-07776-4

"One of the twentieth century's most original literary voices delivers a haunting and heartrending meditation on the absurdities of love and war.Considered to be António Lobo Antunes's masterpiece, The Land at the End of the World--now in a new and fully restored translation by acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa--recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese medic haunted by memories of war, who, like the Ancient Mariner, will tell ..."






Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water
(The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
by António Lobo Antunes, Jeff Love
Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2019 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-22662-1, ISBN: 0-300-22662-4

"A novel about the horrors of war and its aftermath from one of Europe’s most brilliant authors Award‑winning author António Lobo Antunes returns to the subject of the Portuguese colonial war in Angola with a vigorous account of atrocity and vengeance. Drawing on his own bitter experience as a soldier stationed for twenty‑seven months in Angola, Lobo Antunes tells the story of a young African boy who is brought to Portugal by one of the ..."






The Fat Man and Infinity(1st Edition)
And Other Writings
by António Lobo Antunes, Margaret J. Costa
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by W. W. Norton & Company
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06198-7, ISBN: 0-393-06198-1

"A lyrical, searing work of autobiography, reflection, and fiction, evoking García Márquez's memoirs and Pamuk's Istanbul. António Lobo Antunes's sole ambition from the age of seven was to be a writer. Here, in The Fat Man and Infinity, "the heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner) reflects on the fractured paradise of his childhood―the world of prim, hypocritical, class-riven Lisbon in midcentury. His Proust-like memoirs, written o ..."






Knowledge of Hell(1st Edition)
by António Lobo Antunes, Clifford E. Landers
Paperback, 298 Pages, Published 2008 by Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-436-0, ISBN: 1-56478-436-3

"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 Antunes on a journey both real and phantasmagorical as he travels by car from a vacation in the Algarve back to his hated work as a psychiatrist at a Lisbon mental ..."






The Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water
by António Lobo Antunes
384 Pages, Published 2019 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-24911-8, ISBN: 0-300-24911-X

"Deftly framing the events through an assembly of interwoven narratives and perspectives, this is one of Lobo Antunes’s most captivating and experimental books."






What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?
by António Lobo Antunes
480 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06953-2, ISBN: 0-393-06953-2

"António Lobo Antunes. —Well, Soraia? (—I said I wasn't interested in seeing you, didn't I) and my father was stomping out alegrías, bouncing, stopping, doing a spin for moments he was almost a woman, almost young, the rags were a real dress, ... pinky with the setting of a Libra held by three silver clamps, the messenger boy photographed from an angle beautiful Cristiana bare-shouldered , smiling —The engineer at table nine, Cristia ..."






Fado Alexandrino(Reprint)
(Antunes, Antonio Lobo)
by António Lobo Antunes, Gregory Rabassa
Paperback, 497 Pages, Published 1995 by Grove Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3421-9, ISBN: 0-8021-3421-1

"... the communications officer suggested, belching up the third glass of Alka- Seltzer in a row (and the effervescent tablet rose and ... "listening to the sounds from the window, wide awake, the kale rustling, the chicks, the metal shrubbery of antennae shaking and swaying. I'd come in the next day with the teeth in my gums ringing with scurvy as though I'd taken an endless nightmare voyage on my sheets."






The Land at the End of the World(Reprint)
A Novel
by António Lobo Antunes, Margaret Jull Costa
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2012 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34233-8, ISBN: 0-393-34233-6

"In The Land at the End of the World, one of the twentieth century's most original literary voices delivers a haunting and heartrending meditation on the absurdities of love and war. Considered to be Antonio Lobo Antunes's masterpiece, The Land at the End of the World - now in a new and fully restored translation by Margaret Jull Costa - recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese medic haunted by memories of war, who, like the Ancient M ..."






What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?(1st Edition)
A Novel
by António Lobo Antunes, Gregory Rabassa
Paperback, 585 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32948-3, ISBN: 0-393-32948-8

"A soaring, symphonic epic by the Portuguese master novelist, considered to be the "heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner). The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde―a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidos ..."






The Splendor of Portugal
(Portuguese Literature Series)
by António Lobo Antunes
Published 2011 by Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-693-7, ISBN: 1-56478-693-5

"Antunes again proves that he is the foremost stylist of his generation, a fearless investigator into the worst excesses of the human animal."






QUELS SONT CES CHEVAUX QUI JETTENT LEUR OMBRE SUR LA MER
by Lobo Antunes Antonio, António Lobo Antunes
Paperback, Published 2014 by Christian Bourgois Editeur
ISBN-13: 978-2-267-02633-7, ISBN: 2-267-02633-3






Die Rückkehr der Karavellen
(Paperback)
by António Lobo Antunes
Paperback, Published 2014 by Btb Taschenbuch Sep 2014
ISBN-13: 978-3-442-74779-5, ISBN: 3-442-74779-1






An den Flüssen, die strömen
Roman
by António Lobo Antunes, Antnio Lobo Antunes
Paperback, Published 2013 by Btb Verlag (Tb)
ISBN-13: 978-3-442-74596-8, ISBN: 3-442-74596-9






Welche Pferde sind das, die da
by António Lobo Antunes, Maralde Meyer-Minnemann, Luchterhand Literaturvlg.
Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2013 by Luchterhand Literaturverlag
ISBN-13: 978-3-630-87345-9, ISBN: 3-630-87345-6






Pedro Cabrita Reis
One After An, A Few Silent Steps
by Dieter Schwarz, António Lobo Antunes, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Markus Richter, Carre D'art, Museu Colecção Berardo
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2010 by Hatje Cantz
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-2558-3, ISBN: 3-7757-2558-X

"Since the early 1990s, the work of Pedro Cabrita Reis (born 1956) has revolved around the subjects of home and territory, in works based on tables and chairs, doors and windows. The "homelessness" of humanity is a constant of Cabrita Reis' concerns."






Je ne t'ai pas vu hier dans Babylone
(French Edition)
by António Lobo Antunes, Michelle Giudicelli
Paperback, 571 Pages, Published 2009 by Christian Bourgois Editeur
ISBN-13: 978-2-267-02049-6, ISBN: 2-267-02049-1

"Il doit être minuit parce que les bruits, ceux du jardin, ceux de la maison et ceux de ma femme qui a fait partir les chiens en les fouettant légèrement avec une branche. - Fichez-moi le camp. Elle a attaché la chienne en chaleur dans le garage et je parie qu'elle s'est couchée parce que pas de lumière dans le couloir ni dans la chambre dans laquelle je ne pénètre plus depuis des siècles, je reste ici très loin d'elle avec tout ce silen ..."






Livre de chroniques
Tome 4
by António Lobo Antunes, Michelle Giudicelli
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2009 by Christian Bourgois Editeur
ISBN-13: 978-2-267-02011-3, ISBN: 2-267-02011-4

"« Me voilà assis à attendre que la chronique se décide à venir. Je n''ai jamais d''idée ; je me limite à attendre le premier mot, celui qui entraîne les autres derrière lui. [...] C''est comme chasser des antilopes sur la rive du fleuve : on reste adossé à un tronc jusqu''à ce qu''elles arrivent, en silence, sans parler. Et voilà qu''un petit bruit s''approche : la chronique, méfiante, regarde de tous côtés, avance d''un rien la patte d ..."






Bonsoir les choses d'ici-bas
(LITTERATURE ETRANGERE)
by António Lobo Antunes, Carlos Batista
Paperback, 715 Pages, Published 2005 by Christian Bourgois Editeur
ISBN-13: 978-2-267-01754-0, ISBN: 2-267-01754-7






La mort de Carlos Gardel
by António Lobo Antunes, Geneviève Leibrich
Poche, 419 Pages, Published 2005 by Seuil
ISBN-13: 978-2-02-062059-8, ISBN: 2-02-062059-6



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