Knowledge of Hell

Knowledge of Hell

EnglishPaperback / softback
Antunes, Antonio Lobo
Dalkey Archive Press
EAN: 9781564784360
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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.
EAN 9781564784360
ISBN 1564784363
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
Publication date April 17, 2008
Pages 298
Language English
Dimensions 210 x 148 x 20
Country United States
Readership General
Authors Antunes, Antonio Lobo
Illustrations Illustrations
Translators Landers, Clifford E
Series Portuguese Literature