by António Lobo Antunes · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478445547
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«Tratado de las pasiones del alma» is the contemporary novel by António Lobo Antunes, published by Siruela in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
A terrorist called the Man is interrogated by an examining magistrate; they have known each other since childhood and their ideological and class differences surface in the conversation. The magistrate comes from a poor peasant family; the terrorist is the grandson of the landowner whose lands that family worked. Lobo Antunes explores the human soul with exuberant language.
Translation from Portuguese by Mario Merlino. Part of the Biblioteca Lobo Antunes collection.
Readers of literary fiction interested in psychological portraiture and the work of António Lobo Antunes.
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.
