The Return of the Caravels

The Return of the Caravels
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Publisher : Grove Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0802139558
ISBN-13 : 9780802139559
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis The Return of the Caravels by : António Lobo Antunes

"Set in Lisbon as Portugal's African colonies dissolve in the 1970s."--Jacket.

An Explanation of the Birds

An Explanation of the Birds
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Publisher : Grove Press
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0802134203
ISBN-13 : 9780802134202
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis An Explanation of the Birds by : Antonio Lobo Antunes

Rui S., a political historian, is unable to accept the circumstances of his life: his mother's death from cancer, his estrangement from his family, his rejection by his first wife and children, his political vacillations and his ambigious feelings for his second wife.

South of Nowhere

South of Nowhere
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Publisher : Random House (NY)
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015014610425
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Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis South of Nowhere by : António Lobo Antunes

Recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese medic haunted by memories of war, who, like the Ancient Mariner, will tell his tale to anyone who listens. In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, Lobo Antunes weaves words into an exhilarating tapestry, imbuing his prose with the grace and resonance of poetry. The narrator, freshly returned to Lisbon after his hellish tour of duty in Angola, confesses the traumas of his memory to a nameless lover. Their evening unfolds like a fever dream, as Lobo Antunes leaps deftly back and forth from descriptions of postdictatorship Portugal to the bizarre and brutal world of life on the front line. The result is both tragic and absurd, and belongs among the great war novels of the modern age.

The Natural Order of Things

The Natural Order of Things
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Publisher : Grove Press
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 0802138136
ISBN-13 : 9780802138132
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis The Natural Order of Things by : António Lobo Antunes

"He [the author] draws us into a labyrinth of disparate lives whose connections become clear only gradually ... a diabetic teenage girl in Lisbon, her father, an officer in the pre-revolutionary armey and a secret policeman."--Jacket.

Cogs, Caravels and Galleons

Cogs, Caravels and Galleons
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Publisher : Chartwell Books
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 0785812652
ISBN-13 : 9780785812654
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Cogs, Caravels and Galleons by : Robert Gardiner

Cogs, Caravels and Galleons traces the development of seagoing vessels from the traditions of late antiquity to the all important emergence of the three-masted ship, undoubtedly the most significant innovation in the history of shipping before the steam engine. Without the three-masted ship the European age of exploration and expansion is almost inconceivable and there is no doubt that the subsequent evolution of the world would have been markedly different. In recent years much original research has been done in this field, based on both documentary sources and archaeology, but this is the first overall synthesis of the new material now available. The main chapters are devoted to the principal ship types, explaining the latest thinking on the characteristics of cogs, caravels, hulks and so forth that have caused scholarly debate for decades. There are also more general sections on essential background subjects like construction and guns and gunnery, as well as pertinent essays on the evidence - from documentary sources, contemporary illustrations and archaeology. All the contributors are the foremost experts in their fields, but in presenting the fruits of their research at an approachable level, Cogs, Caravels and Galleons is a pioneering work in this area of maritime history.

Fado Alexandrino

Fado Alexandrino
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 497
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ISBN-10 : 0802134211
ISBN-13 : 9780802134219
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Fado Alexandrino by : Antonio Lobo Antunes

On the tenth anniversary of the return of their battalion from Mozambique, five men attempt to rekindle the fraternal bond that helped them survive the colonial war that was Portugal's Vietnam. In turn, they tell the stories of their lives before, during, and after the revolution that overthrew the long-lived Salazar dictatorship.

Knowledge of Hell

Knowledge of Hell
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Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 9781564784360
ISBN-13 : 1564784363
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Knowledge of Hell by : António Lobo Antunes

The narrator of this stark and elegantly translated novel is a psychiatrist named Antnio Lobo Antunes, returning from vacation to his loathed job at Miguel Bombarda Hospital in Lisbon. Over the course of the trip, the narrator's mind ranges over the monstrosities he encountered in the colonial wars in Angola in the 1970s and in his work; through the layering of memories, he draws parallels between the destruction of the war and the questionable care offered to the mentally ill.

Toward a Linguistic and Literary Revision of Cultural Paradigms

Toward a Linguistic and Literary Revision of Cultural Paradigms
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781527520899
ISBN-13 : 1527520897
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Toward a Linguistic and Literary Revision of Cultural Paradigms by : Ettore Finazzi-Agrò

This book draws an updated Euro-American conceptual map, starting from a limited number of strategic terms whose meanings today are judged univocal and permanent, while in fact daily use has turned them into “common sense”, depriving them of their ambiguity – an original feature of language, particularly relevant when it comes to literary use. By re-examining the proper noun for each of the selected notions, the contributors’ common intent is to shed light on their polysemous nature and linguistic fluidity, in spite of the common tendency towards simplification and homogeneity imposed by hegemonic cultural paradigms. Along this line, the book explores the great divides between identity and otherness (or common or alien) in order to recover a sense of cultural identity which is at once polymorphous and polyphonic.

Selected Poems of Corsino Fortes

Selected Poems of Corsino Fortes
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Publisher : Archipelago
Total Pages : 146
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ISBN-10 : 9780914671121
ISBN-13 : 091467112X
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Selected Poems of Corsino Fortes by : Corsino Fortes

Concerned with giving voice to Cape Verdean life, Fortes writes in Cape Verdean Creole - and not just standard Portuguese - a powerful statement reinforcing the islands' distinctive African nature. However, his poems are often written from the perspective of an exile - and themes of exile and redemptive return recur in his work. This collection introduces English readers to Fortes, and the poet's beautiful and unique use of language.

What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?: A Novel

What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?: A Novel
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 607
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ISBN-10 : 9780393069532
ISBN-13 : 0393069532
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?: A Novel by : António Lobo Antunes

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.