Tag Archives: António Lobo Antunes

The Return of the Caravels

“A twenty-first-century modernist heir to the narrative collage technique championed by such masters as Ferdinand C”line, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garc”a M”rquez, James Joyce, Vladimir…

The Natural Order of Things

“The Natural Order of Things . . . reads like William Faulkner or Céline . . . gorgeous . . . bedeviled [and] lyrical…

The Inquisitors’ Manual

“Antunes creates voices with a scrupulous, authorial neutrality. . . . He also has created a character in Senhor Francisco . . . as…

Fado Alexandrino

An Explanation of the Birds

Act of the Damned

“An exhilarating cacophony of conflicting voices . . . The fury of its rhetoric takes on all but irresistible momentum.” –Kirkus Reviews