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Benfica
Series · 3 books · 1990-1994

Books in series

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#1

Tratado de las pasiones del alma

1990

Um Juiz de Instrução e um Homem, que aparecerá também como «Antunes», amigos de infância, encontram-se num processo judicial em que o Homem (Antunes) é acusado de pertencer a uma rede bombista. São amigos de infância porque o Juiz era filho do caseiro da quinta do avô Antunes, em Benfica.
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#2

La muerte de Carlos Gardel

1994

Uma nova edição ne varietur, cuidadosamente preparada e única. António Lobo Antunes, implacável, dá-nos a conhecer uma família e os que em seu torno gravitam, num retrato árido e cruel, que leva o leitor, pelo menos, a repensar as relações entre os homens num Portugal prestes a entrar no século XX. Uma Lisboa marginal, decadende, que acolhe um pequeno universo com personagens que giram em torno da sua própria solidão e isolamento. Um pai ingénuo que acredita que Gardel não morreu naquele acidente aéreo, e uma tia obstinada dirigem-se a um hospital para velar um jovem heroínomano em estado de coma.
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The Natural Order of Things

1992

The Natural Order of Things is a tale of two families and the secrets that bind them. The voices of Antunes' characters—an army officer being tortured in prison on charges of conspiracy; an elderly man, once a miner in Mozambique, now reduced to dreams of "flying underground"; a diabetic teenage girl and the middle-aged husband she despises; the officer's illegitimate sister, locked away to haunt the house like Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre—create a portrait of a disintegrating Portugal, a personal political history that attains the brilliance and surreality of Elias Canetti and Nikolai Gogol.

Author

Antonio Lobo Antunes
Antonio Lobo Antunes
Author · 41 books

At the age of seven, António Lobo Antunes decided to be a writer but when he was 16, his father sent him to medical school - he is a psychiatrist. During this time he never stopped writing. By the end of his education he had to join the Army, to take part in the war in Angola, from 1970 to 1973. It was there, in a military hospital, that he gained interest for the subjects of death and the other. The Angolan war for independence later became subject to many of his novels. He worked many months in Germany and Belgium. In 1979, Lobo Antunes published his first novel - Memória de Elefante (Elephant's Memory), where he told the story of his separation. Due to the success of his first novel, Lobo Antunes decided to devote his evenings to writing. He has been practicing psychiatry all the time, though, mainly at the outpatient's unit at the Hospital Miguel Bombarda of Lisbon. His style is considered to be very dense, heavily influenced by William Faulkner, James Joyce and Louis-Ferdinand Céline. He has an extensive work, translated into several languages. Among the many awards he has received so far, in 2007 he received the Camões Award, the most prestigious Portuguese literary award.

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