Born in 1942, Antonio Lobo Antunes, had no shortage of wounds: a childhood in a refrigerated family of the Lisbon upper bourgeoisie, then, after his medical studies – he was a psychiatrist –, the experience, from 1971, in Angola, of the colonial conflicts led by a backward Portugal. The traumas caused by such military operations are at the heart of his first three books published at the turn of the 1980s – Elephant’s Memory, The Ass of Judas, Knowledge of Hell –, while irrigating his work made up of around forty novels, chronicles and poems.
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