demonstrates Lobo Antunes's impressive techniques for upsetting boundaries between past and present, reality and phantasm' -Alan Gilbert, The Village Voice
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, a survivor of a failed marriage, and a man seeking meaning in an uncaring and venal society. The reader joins that narrator on a journey, both real and phantasmagorical, from his Algarve vacation back to Lisbon and the mental-hospital job he hates. In the course of one long day and evening, he carries on an imaginary conversation with his daughter Joanna, observes with surreal vision the bleak countryside of his nation, recalls the horrors of his involuntary role in the suppression of Angolan independence, and curses the charlatanism of contemporary psychiatric “advances” that destroy rather than heal.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781564784360
Publisert
2008-04-17
Utgiver
Dalkey Archive Press; Dalkey Archive Press
Vekt
390 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
298
Forfatter
Oversetter