by António Lobo Antunes · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439720904
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«Conocimiento del infierno» is the novel by António Lobo Antunes, published by Random House in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The work takes place in the corridors of a psychiatric hospital in Lisbon and portrays the lives of the patients, their anguish and their abandonment. António Lobo Antunes assumes the voice of those silenced creatures to denounce the dehumanization of psychiatric practice and its obsolete and inhuman methods.
The Portuguese original, «Conhecimento do inferno», was published in 1980. The Spanish translation is by Mario Merlino Tornini.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction and psychological literature interested in the work of one of the great Portuguese authors of the 20th century.
António Lobo Antunes was a Portuguese novelist and medical doctor. He was awarded the 2000 Austrian State Prize, the 2003 Ovid Prize, the 2005 Jerusalem Prize, the 2007 Camões Prize, and the 2008 Juan Rulfo Prize. Lobo Antunes was repeatedly nominated as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
