Antonio Lobo Antunes, Author Grove/Atlantic $19.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1339-9
The Portuguese author of Fado Alexandrino offers a dizzying, kaleidoscopic portrait of a weak-willed man destroyed by the bourgeois expectations of his wealthy family. During the course of the novel, Rui S. suffers a mental breakdown, and the...
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Ant%C3%B3nio Lobo Antunes, trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. Norton, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-07776-6
Antunes's (What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire?) haunting work entangles the reader in a maelstrom of ghastly wartime impressions, recounted by a young medic during the Angolan struggle for independence during the early 1970s. The narrator is a...
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Antonio Lobo Antunes, Author, Gregory Rabassa, Translator , trans. from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa. Grove $24 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1708-3
Antunes examines the legacy of the Portuguese conquistadors in his latest novel, a murky, hallucinatory affair in which the author follows half a dozen characters through the breakup of Portugal's colonial dominion in the 1970s while...
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Antonio Lobo Antunes, Author, Gregory Rabassa, Translator Grove/Atlantic $22.5 (497p) ISBN 978-1-55584-343-4
The Portuguese author of Elephant Memory and South of Nowhere makes no concessions to the reader in this dense and demanding work. Hundreds of pages elapse before settings, characters and events are explicitly identified; instead, the narrative...
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Antonio Lobo Antunes, Author, Clifford E. Landers, Translator , trans. from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers. Dalkey Archive $13.95 (298p) ISBN 978-1-56478-436-0
The narrator of this stark and elegantly translated novel is a psychiatrist named António Lobo Antunes, returning from vacation to his loathed job at Miguel Bombarda Hospital in Lisbon. Over the course of the trip, the narrator’s mind...
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Antonio Lobo Antunes, Author, Richard Zenith, Translator , trans. from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith. Grove $25 (356p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1732-8
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar is not the best known of 20th-century dictators, but he was as cruel and ruthless as any of them in his rule over Portugal from 1932 to 1968. In his 11th novel, Antunes (The Return of the Caravels; Act of the Damned)...
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Antonio Lobo Antunes, Author, Richard Zenith, Translator Grove Press $22 (246p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1575-1
Awarded the Portuguese Writers' Association Grand Prize for Fiction, this novel allows American readers another glimpse at Antunes's difficult, malicious brilliance. Set in Portugal in the mid-1970s, it concerns a bourgeois family trying to settle...
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Antonio Lobo Antunes, Author, Richard Zenith, Translator Grove/Atlantic $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1658-1
Using the poetic resources of language, and hinging his plot less on everyday logic than on a dreamlike progression from character to metaphor to history, Antunes's fantastically complex and compressed novel illumines Portugal's crime-studded...
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