Antonio Lobo Antunes

obra completa

O arquipiélago da insónia

a novel

The land at the end of the world

On the tenth anniversary of the return of their battalion from Mozambique, five men attempt to rekindle the fraternal bond that helped them survive the colonial war that was Portugal's Vietnam. In turn, they tell the stories of their lives before, during, and after the revolution that overthrew the long-lived Salazar dictatorship.

Fado Alexandrino

As Naus - Obra completa

Eu Hei-de Amar Uma Pedra

Esplendor de Portugal

romance

O meu nome é Legião

Set in the aftermath of the "Carnation Revolution" of April 25, 1974, Antonio Lobo Antunes's Warning to the Crocodiles is a fragmented narrative of the violent tensions resulting from major political changes in Portugal. Told through the memories of four women who spend their days fashioning homemade explosives and participating in the kidnap and torture of communists, the novel details the clandestine activities of an extreme right-wing Salazarist faction resisting the country's new embrace of democracy.

Warning to the Crocodiles

Nao Entres Tao Depressa Nessa Noite Escura

A morte de Carlos Gardel

Libro de Cronicas

António Lobo Antunes's twenty-fifth novel, Commission of Tears (2011, Comissão das Lágrimas) is set during the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002). Angola attained official independence on November 11, 1975 and, while the stage was set for transition, a combination of ethnic tensions and international pressures rendered Angola's hard-won victory problematic. As with many post-colonial states, Angola was left with both economic and social difficulties which translated into a power struggle between the three predominant liberation movements. The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), formed in December of 1956 as an offshoot of the Angolan Communist Party, had as its support base the Ambundu people and was largely supported by other African countries, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. In this novel, Lobo Antunes delves into this traumatic period of Angola's history through the fragmented memories and dreams of a broken woman. The author drew from the story of the commander of the female battalion MPLA (Popular movement for the liberation of Angola) who was tortured and killed following the state coup of May 1977. It is said that while they tortured her she did not stop singing. This is the story of Cristina, admitted in to a psychiatric clinic in Lisbon. In her torrent of memories, dialogues and traumatic episodes, Cristina remembers her early childhood in Africa, at the time when everything inside her head was intertwined with her father ́s voice, who was a former Black priest and became one of the torturers of the "Commission of Tears." Cristina's white mother, a cabaret dancer imported from Lisbon to entertain Portuguese farmers in Angola, marries the Black ex-priest because she finds herself pregnant with Cristina by her the man who exploits her, the cabaret manager. The long, twisting narrative weaves together the three voices of daughter, father, and mother as they recall the terrors of their life in Angola, and their own suffering. Their personal tragedies, scarred by racism and abuse, mirror those of the country that is being torn asunder around them.

Commission of Tears

Set in the aftermath of the “Carnation Revolution” of April 25, 1974, Antonio Lobo Antunes’s Warning to the Crocodiles is a fragmented narrative of the violent tensions resulting from major political changes in Portugal. Told through the memories of four women who spend their days fashioning homemade explosives and participating in the kidnap and torture of communists, the novel details the clandestine activities of an extreme right-wing Salazarist faction resisting the country’s new embrace of democracy. Warning to the Crocodiles (Exortação aos Crocodilos) has won: - Best Novel by the Portuguese Writers Association (Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores) (1999) - The D. Dinis Prize of the Casa de Mateus Foundation (Prémio D. Dinis da Fundação Casa de Mateus) (1999) - The Austrian State Literature Prize (Prémio de Literatura Europeia do Estado Austríaco) (2000)

Denken erlaubt! Der Schriftsteller Antonio Lobo Antunes

Que cavalos são aqueles que fazem sombra no mar?

Exortacao Aos Crocodilos

Arcipelago dell’insonnia narra la storia di tre generazioni di una facoltosa famiglia del Portogallo rurale: dall’ascesa, grazie alla caparbietà e al dispotismo del capostipite, fino all’ineluttabile crollo. Si avvicendano e si mescolano in modo frammentario le voci dei protagonisti, come anche i piani narrativi del presente e del ricordo, senza rispettare la sequenzialità temporale o semantica, né instaurare soluzioni di continuità fra realtà e irrealtà.Al centro della narrazione c’è quel che rimane della casa colonica, intrisa di memorie; le intemperanze del patriarca che abusa delle serve e maltratta i contadini con l’appoggio del fattore, amico e fedele braccio destro; ci sono le vicende di due fratelli – di cui uno solo legittimo – trattati in modo impari dal padre, e c’è la voce dolente di un nipote affetto da autismo che paradossalmente, sebbene in modo onirico e visionario, dall’ospizio in cui è recluso, è l’unico a conservare piena memoria del passato familiare e a svelare i nessi segreti di tante storie. Ma la prosa sensazionale di António Lobo Antunes e il suo straordinario immaginario sono, come in tutti i suoi romanzi, i protagonisti assoluti.

Arcipelago dell'insonnia

António Lobo Antunes

Rui S., a political historian, is unable to accept the circumstances of his life: his mother's death from cancer, his estrangement from his family, his rejection by his first wife and children, his political vacillations and his ambigious feelings for his second wife.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

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