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