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Quarto Livro de Crónicas
2012
First Published
4.11
Average Rating
328
Number of Pages
Este quarto livro de crónicas de António Lobo Antunes é uma selecção de 79 crónicas publicadas na revista Visão. Nestes pequenos textos, António Lobo Antunes evoca lugares, personagens, retratos do quotidiano e memórias de infância. Não morreste na cama mas morreste entre lençóis de metal horrivelmente amachucados na auto-estrada de Cascais para Lisboa e a gente ali, diante do teu caixão, tão tristes. Começa assim a quarta crónica deste livro e é um bom exemplo da intensidade dramática de alguns textos que sendo muito mais acessíveis ao público do que os seus romances não descuram uma forte componente literária. E com uma narrativa que nos surpreende sempre pela genialidade como junta as palavras para formar cada frase, António Lobo Antunes leva-nos da tristeza à alegria e arranca-nos sorrisos pela forma como se ri de si próprio e das pequenas fraquezas de cada um de nós e que "apanha" e retrata como ninguém.
Avg Rating
4.11
Number of Ratings
135
5 STARS
36%
4 STARS
44%
3 STARS
18%
2 STARS
2%
1 STARS
1%
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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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