ANTÓNIO LOBO ANTUNES: THE WORK, THE SLASHED WRITING AND THE (POST)MODERNITY

Abstract

The elliptical writing of the portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes implies new devices to designate this present and contemporary literary esthetic. Whether modernity has been assaulted by uncertainties and multiple speeches of the post-modernists perspectives, the portuguese writer revels, in his writing and scripture, a transience of reminiscences and memories which ensemble and implodes themselves. The post-modern refrain seems already represented and envisaged, by the structures of novel form, on the author of O Manual dos Inquisidores and Ontem não te vi em Babilónia.