Warning to the crocodiles
by António Lobo Antunes
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Set in the aftermath of the "Carnation Revolution" of April 25, 1974, Antonio Lobo Antunes's Warning to the Crocodiles is a fragmented narrative of the violent tensions resulting from major political changes in Portugal.Told through the memories of four women who spend their days fashioning homemade explosives and participating in the kidnap and torture of communists, the novel details the clandestine activities of an extreme right-wing Salazarist faction resisting the country's new embrace show more of democracy.Warning to the Crocodiles (Exortac?a?o aos Crocodilos) has won:- Best Novel by the Portuguese Writers Association (Grande Pre?mio de Romance e Novela da Associac?a?o Portuguesa de Escritores) (1999)- The D. Dinis Prize of the Casa de Mateus Foundation (Pre?mio D. Dinis da Fundac?a?o Casa de Mateus) (1999)- The Austrian State Literature Prize (Pre?mio de Literatura Europeia do Estado Austri?aco) (2000) show lessTags
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This is quite simply one of the best novels I ever read. Lobo Antunes is probably the best Portuguese novelist alive today and this is one of his best novels. The main themes are the usual in the novels of Lobo Antunes: portuguese post-revolution society and just how deeply fascism had grown in Portugal. The writing is, as in most of the author's novels, pretty Faulknerian - we're told how each character's mind interpreted events, a technique that creates a nice literary contrast between perspectives of events described. Lobo Antunes' masterful use of the Portuguese language makes for a highly engaging yet rather complex book. Highly recommended for those who enjoy complex literature (in the vein of Faulkner), especially if you can read show more it in Portuguese. show less
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Lobo Antunes, a psychiatrist and a soldier in the Portuguese colonial wars in Angola, was born in Lisbon. "South of Nowhere", his second novel, published in 1980, became the center of controversy both because of its daring content and its novel structure. The action is very brief: it lasts only one night. The author tells a silent woman companion show more his frank impressions about his experience as a medical doctor in the war of liberation against Portuguese colonialism. In some passages, the novel makes allusion to The Lusiads and its allegorical intentions. It denounces with lucid sarcasm the failure of Portuguese colonization in Africa. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Romance
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- 869.342 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish Literature Literatures of Portuguese and Galician languages Portuguese fiction 20th Century 1945-1999
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- PQ9263 .N77 .E96 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Portuguese literature Individual authors, 1961-2000
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