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Senhor francisco, a once powerful state minister and a personal friend of the portuguese dictator salazar, is incapacitated by a stroke, and as he. Portugals years under the fascist salazar are portrayed in a succession of bad dreams, each vividly recalled as characters comment on that dark. Antonio lobo antunes agreed to meet me in his hotel on park avenue south on a sunny afternoon. In his eleventh novel, antonio lobo antunes, one of the great european literary masters, chronicles the decadence not just of a family but of an entire society a society morally and spiritually vitiated by four decades of totalitarian rule. He has been married to cristina ferreira almeida since may 19, 2010. The inquisitors manual book by antonio lobo antunes. It is a terrifying portrait of the moral decrepitude of portugal during the salazar dictatorship.
I was greeted by a youthful, balding, 66yearold, with slate blue eyes the color of his denim shirt. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. His style is dense and sometimes disorienting, with multiple. After three centuries under the inquisition, followed by 100 years of relative freedom, a long dictatorship could only give the impression of static time.
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He has been named as a contender for the nobel prize in literature life and career. Pdf ino manual dos inquisidores 1996 antonio lobo antunes. Nearing the end of his life in a lisbon nursing home, former state minister and friend of portuguese dictator salazar ruminates on his inept son, illegitimate daughter, and the revolution that ended the. But the more apt comparison may be to turkish novelist orhan pamuk, whose novels, for all their philosophies. The inquisitors manual is a dense and profound book. A few decades later, lobo antunes s big salazar novel, the inquisitors manual, would use the same metaphor. The inquisitors manual is still very much in his style it is less hallucinatory and surreal than some of his other efforts, but he is writing a world where. Read the inquisitors manual pdf ebook by antonio lobo antunes.
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