What Can I do When Everything's On Fire
António Lobo AntunesSujeito a confirmação por parte da editora
Detalhes do Produto
- Editora: W W Norton & Co
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- Ano: 2008
- ISBN: 9780393329483
Sinopse
A soaring, symphonic epic by the Portuguese master novelist, considered to be the "heir to Conrad and Faulkner" (George Steiner).
The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, António Lobo Antunes´s first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon´s demimonde - a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and drug addicts - is narrated by Paolo, the son of Lisbon´s most legendary transvestite, who searches for his own identity as he recalls the harrowing death of his father, Carlos; the life of Carlos´s lover, Rui, a heroin addict and suicide; as well as the other denizens of this hallucinatory world. Psychologically penetrating, pregnant with literary symbolism, and deeply sympathetic in its depiction of society´s dregs, Lobo Antunes´s novel ventriloquizes the voices of the damned in a poetic masterwork that recalls Joyce´s Ulysses with a dizzying farrago of urban images few readers will forget.
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