Suicides, shrouds and autobiography in the work of António Lobo Antunes
Keywords:
Suicide, shroud, colonial war, distortion/representationAbstract
The Portuguese colonial war has been progressively forgotten, but it stayed as heavy ballast among those who fought and survived. In literature, the work of António Lobo Antunes may be the best example of the negative effects of that war, such as suicide, mostly in his rst novels, although it reappeared in a recent book: Não É Meia Noite Quem Quer. Suicide is not only a physical phenomenon, but it is represented as inner exile, loneliness, escape, silence. Are we s ll, like Unamuno said, a suicidal nation? Or suicide is today connected with the necessity of a collective autognosis, necessary in a me that is being considered as post-colonial?
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