《What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?》是W. W. Norton & Company出版的圖書，作者是António Lobo Antunes
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780393329483
- 作者：António Lobo Antunes
- 出版社：W. W. Norton & Company
- 出版時間：2008年9月17日
- 頁數：585
- 定價：USD 19.95
- 裝幀：Paperback
- 譯者：Gregory Rabassa
內容簡介
The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, Ant nio Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and d...(展開全部) The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, Ant nio Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity and kaleidoscopic beauty, a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and drug addicts is narrated by Paolo, the son of Lisbon's most legendary transvestite, who searches for his own identity as he recalls the harrowing death of his father, Carlos; the life of Carlos's lover, Rui, a heroin addict and suicide; as well as the other denizens of this hallucinatory world. Psychologically penetrating, pregnant with literary symbolism, and deeply sympathetic in its depiction of society's dregs, Lobo Antunes's novel ventriloquizes the voices of the damned in a poetic masterwork that recalls Joyce's Ulysses with a dizzying farrago of urban images few readers will forget.
