The Fat Man and Infinity: And Other Writings
António Lobo Antunes's sole ambition from the age of seven was to be a writer. Here, in The Fat Man and Infinity, the heir to Conrad and Faulkner (George Steiner) reflects on the fractured paradise of his childhood-the world of prim, hypocritical, class-riven Lisbon in midcentury. His Proust-like memoirs, written over thirty years in chronicle form, pass through the filter of an adult who has known war and pain, and bear witness to the people whom he loved and who have gone into the dark. Stunningly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, in prose that glides like poetry, this is a modern-day chronicle of Portugal's imperfect past and arresting pr…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-06198-7
- EAN: 9780393061987
- Produktnummer: 4051714
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 390 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B14.7 cm x D3.3 cm 590 g
- Gewicht: 590
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António Lobo Antunes, born in 1942 in Benfica, is considered to be Portugal's greatest living writer. The author of more than twenty novels, including What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, he has won many awards and makes his home in Lisbon.
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