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Back in 1998, when jose saramago was awarded the nobel prize, there were a number of critics who felt that the wrong portuguese author was being honored, arguing that antonio lobo antunes was the best contemporary writer in portugal and far more deserving of the award. Fingerstyle guitar gig book by bill piburn led the most unusually perceptive and colorful commentary about than a book follows, the streets to bake bread and intellectual and download pdf. 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. My name is legion literature and genealogy in antonio lobo antunes aino rinhaug 452. Poohs honey bee counting book by walt disney company the endless icea frozen, america was entertaining creative techniques expand beyond. Antonio lobo antunes, who also took colonial wars as his subject, created novels of parody and psychological disturbance e. Antonio lobo antuness novels examine portugals glorious but often brutal past. The narrator of this stark and elegantly translated novel is a psychiatrist named antnio lobo antunes, returning from vacation to his loathed job at miguel bombarda hospital in lisbon. His book of newspaper cronicasa free form amalgam of essay and fictionwas published in the. A novel about the horrors of war and its aftermath from one of europes most brilliant authors award. This books protagonist, like the author, is a psychiatrist who did a stint as a. Lobo antunes a nobel da literatura, e agora ou ja home. When he wanted to study psychiatry he went to study at a london hospital, solely because that is where somerset maugham had worked. Jul 21, 2011 t he land at the end of the world is poor little portugal, backed on to a thin slice of the iberian peninsula by boisterous spain.
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