Summary
Antonio Lobo Antunes: On the Nature of the Gods
In the novel On the Nature of the Gods, imbued with bitterness and steeped in sharp irony, contemporary Portuguese classic António Lobo Antunes, who critics have compared to Faulkner, Conrad and Cortázar, deals with aging, transience, memory, death, sexuality and, of course, the post-colonial state of mind; an expert on the human psyche and its contradictions, reveals how power relations and moral degradation inevitably lead to all kinds of violence and cruelty.
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