Fado AlexandrinoAntunes, Antonio Lobo
9780802117328
The Inquisitors Manual
Antonio Lobo Antunes; Richard Zenith
ISBN 10: 0802117325 / 0-8021-1732-5
ISBN 13: 9780802117328
Publisher: Grove Pr
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780802117328
Publisher: Grove Pr
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
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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. Senhor Francisco, a once powerful state minister and a personal friend of the Portuguese dictator Salazar, is incapacitated by a stroke, and as he spends his last days in a nursing home in Lisbon, he reviews his life and his loves. His son Joao, raised by the housekeeper, grows up to be good-hearted but totally inept, so that his ruthless in-laws easily defraud him of his father's farm. The minister's illegitimate daughter, Paula, whom he had with the cook and who was raised by a childless widow in another town, is ostracized after the Revolution due to her father's position in Salazar's regime. The emotional turmoil enveloping Francisco's family finally catches up with him when the Revolution ends the forty-two years of the dictatorship, and the old regime tumbles like a castle of cards. Senhor Francisco, more paranoid than ever, remains a large but empty shadow of his seeming omnipotence. The Inquisitors' Manual is at once an inquiry into the difficult coexistence of self-affirmation and tenderness toward others, and a powerful examination of a totalitarian sensibility. "what impels the reader through the hopeless, loveless landscape he paints is the sheer energy of the writing....." -- Margaret Jull Costa, Times Literary Supplement "The Inquisitors' Manual is a ... terrifying portrait of the moral decrepitude of Portugal during the [Salazar] dictatorship." -- El Periódico (Madrid)
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"In so dark a tale there can be no chirpy affirmations, but only telling indictments of the corrupt, the cruel, and the unjust--and these Antunes memorably accomplishes."
Kirkus, 11/15/2002
Review:"[W]hile each monologue traps us in the mind of a character who in turn is trapped within a narrow round of resentments, the overall effect is the reverse of claustrophobic; rather, it is a portrait of an entire society ruined. But if the device of the 'inquisition' gives the novel its social breadth, it is the way Antunes makes his characters tell their stories that gives it its remarkable temporal depth....Antunes orchestrates these temporal shifts with marvelous deftness and power."
William Deresiewicz, New York Times Book Review, 03/02/2003
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Book Description: Grove Press, New York, 2003. hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good In Dustjacket. New York. 2003. Grove Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Dustjacket. 435 pages. January 2003. hardcover. 0802117325. António Lobo Antunes is one of the great European literary masters, a writer of whom The Boston Globe has said, ?When Antunes is in full heat. he reads like William Faulkner or Céline.? An international best-seller and the novel that established Antunes ?s reputation in Europe, The Inquisitors? Manual is a harrowing indictment of Portuguese fascism. THE INQUISITORS? MANUAL chronicles the decadence not just of a family but of an entire society morally and spiritually vitiated by four decades of totalitarian rule. Senhor Francisco, a once powerful state minister and a personal friend of the Portuguese dictator Salazar, is incapacitated by a stroke, and as he spends his last days in a nursing home in Lisbon he reviews his life and his loves. His son Joao, raised by the housekeeper, grows up to be good-hearted but totally inept, so that his ruthless in-laws easily defraud him of his father?s farm. The minister?s daughter, Paula, whom he had by the cook and who was raised by a childless widow in another town, is ostracized after the Revolution for her father?s position in Salazar?s regime. The emotional turmoil enveloping Francisco?s family finally catches up with him when the Revolution ends the forty-two years of the dictatorship, and the old regime tumbles like a house of cards. Senhor Francisco, more paranoid than ever, remains a large but empty shadow of his once seeming omnipotence. THE INQUISITORS? MANUAL is simultaneously an inquiry into the difficult coexistence of self-affirmation and tenderness toward others, and a powerful examination of a totalitarian sensibility. ANTONIO LOBO ANTUNES was born in Lisbon in 1942, where he currently resides. The son of a physician, he trained as a psychiatrist and spent four years in the Portuguese army during the Angolan War. He is also the author of ACT OF THE DAMNED, winner of the Portuguese Writers? Association Grand Prize for Fiction, as well as AN EXPLANATION OF THE BIRDS, FADO ALEXANDRINO, THE RETURN OF THE CARAVELS, and many other internationally acclaimed novels. keywords: Literature Portugal Translated. inventory # 33675. Bookseller Inventory # 33675 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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