What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire? by Antonio Antunes

What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire? by Antonio Antunes

A soaring, symphonic epic by the Portuguese master novelist, considered to be the heir to Conrad and Faulkner (George Steiner). The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, Antonio 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.

António Lobo Antunes (1942—2025), considered to be one of Portugal's greatest writers, was the author of more than twenty novels, including What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?. Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was the recipient of multiple prizes including a lifetime achievement award from the PEN American Center for contributions to Hispanic literature and a National Medal of Arts. He was the translator of One Hundred Years of Solitude, among other classic works.

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ISBN 13	9780393329483
ISBN 10	0393329488
Title	What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?
Author	Antonio Antunes
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2008-09-16
Number of pages	608
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