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Doctor and Patient.(Lobo Antunes)(Biography)
The Portuguese novelist Antonio Lobo Antunes discovered his literary vocation while delivering babies, performing amputations, and carving up corpses. Lobo Antunes trained as a doctor, and in the early nineteen-seventies, during military service, he was dispatched to Angola, near the end of a futile war in which the faltering Portuguese empire grappled to retain its African colony. In a makeshift infirmary, he lopped off limbs while a queasy quartermaster--disqualified from operating because the sight of blood made him sick--turned away and recited instructions from a textbook. Lobo Antunes also assisted a witch doctor who presided over births. As he recalls in a new ...
- El portugués Lobo Antunes, cansado de ser el perenne candidato al Nobel de...
- Magazine article from: Proceso Martínez, Sanjuana June 21, 1998 700+ words
...MADRID.- Provocador nato, Antonio Lobo Antunes no perdona a nadie, ni a s mismo...le atrae. Pelo cano y ojos azules, Lobo Antunes se niega a levantarse del silln para...tratando de buscar el placer." Para Lobo Antunes escribir es una forma de placer, de...
- Entrevista / Antonio Lobo Antunes: Escritor con vocacion animal.(El Angel)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) September 12, 2004 700+ words
...presentan a lo largo de su obra, Antnio Lobo Antunes ofrece en su nueva novela un homenaje...han seguido las novelas precedentes de Lobo Antunes, En el culo del mundo (1979), El...Africa y todo lo dems", comenta. Lobo Antunes asegura que su trabajo actual es distinto...
- El poder del afecto.(Yo he de amar una piedra, libro del autor Antonio Lobo...
- Magazine article from: Epoca December 30, 2005 700+ words
Yo he de amar una piedra. Antonio Lobo Antunes. Mondadori. 558 pgs. LOBO Antunes es uno de los narradores ms singulares de la literatura contempornea. Sus obras hablan del amor, la locura (41 es psiquiatra), la guerrra de Angola (en la...
- Antonio Lobo Antunes. The Return of the Caravels.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Post, Chad W. June 22, 2002 700+ words
Antonio Lobo Antunes. The Return of the Caravels. Trans. Gregory Rabassa. Grove, 2002. 210 pp. $24.00. One of Antunes's slimmest books...
- Antonio Lobo Antunes. The Inquisitors' Manual.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Post, Chad W. June 22, 2003 700+ words
Trans. Richard Zenith. Grove, 2003. 435 pp. $25.00. Bearing a certain resemblance to The Sound and the Fury, Antunes's most recent novel to be published in English recounts the fall of a Portuguese family in the time preceding and following the 1974 revolution. The plot revolves around Senhor
- Naipaul, las raíces de un desarraigado: el ganador del Nobel de Literatura es...
- Magazine article from: Epoca Vivas, Ángel October 19, 2001 700+ words
...amigo Paul Theroux ha triturado su novela Half a life. Pero stas son cosas que pasan en el mundo de las letras. Tambin Lobo Antunes anunci la derrota de Saramago poco antes de que ste obtuviera el Nobel. Nacimiento: Trinidad, 1932. Profesin: Doctor...
- High-heeled lowlifes.(What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Seligman, Craig October 1, 2008 700+ words
...ON FIRE? BY ANTONIO LOBO ANTUNES, TRANSLATED BY GREGORY...The work of Antonio Lobo Antunes is held in such high...Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1998, there was...Only about half of Lobo Antunes's sixteen novels have...
- 2009 Nobel Prize Announcements are the First Live Stream Event on YouTube...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire Europe October 5, 2009 700+ words
...October 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The official Nobel Prize-branded channel on YouTube ( http...Europe, with a live stream of the 2009 Nobel Prize Announcements available for YouTube...that have been gathered since the first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901. TheNobelPrize...
