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When he wanted to study psychiatry he went to study at a london hospital, solely because that is where somerset maugham had worked. In knowledge of hell, a narrator, whose name happens to be antonio lobo antunes. He was rumored and expected by some to win the nobel the same year that his fellow portugese jose saramago did. The son of a physician, he too became a doctor and then spent four years in the portuguese army during the angolan war. Read more inspire your inbox sign up for daily fun facts about this day in history, updates, and special offers. Later, the voice of the boy mestico is interrupted by, or even. A feverish chronicle of family disintegration rendered as an exhilarating cacophony of conflicting voices.
The colonial war and his job at a psychiatric hospital, coupled with childhood. Some of lobo antuness earlier books seem too laceratingly confessional to be called fiction at all. All the knowledge there is of things was never something i could seize, like a thing. Lobo antunes is an excellent writer who writes with verve and a ferocious and a extremely sharp and sarcastic wit. Knowledge of hell by antonio lobo antunes, 9781564784360, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. To ask other readers questions about knowledge of hell, please sign up. Text 152 fernando antonio nogueira pessoa was born in lisbon in 1888, died there in. The return of the caravels antunes, antonio lobo antonio lobo antunes, gregory rabassa on. The return of the caravels antunes, antonio lobo by antunes.
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Conhecimento do inferno knowledge of hell if you have read any of antunes later works, you will not be surprised with this book, a uniformly bleak view of the world and of portugal in particular. By the end of his education, lobo antunes had to serve with the portuguese. Landers, antonio lobo antunes 1980 portuguese novel knowledge of hell will probably be lumped in with the work of other romancelanguage magical realists like gabriel garcia marquez. 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. Jul 26, 2011 portuguese author antonio lobo antunes is the author of more than twenty books, including the novels the return of the caravels, knowledge of hell, the natural order of things, the inquisitors manual, and what can i do when everythings on fire. Pdf fernando pessoa a little larger than the entire universe.
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