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Original Title:	Os Cus de Judas
ISBN:	972202759X
Edition Language:	Portuguese
Literary Awards:	PEN Translation Prize Nominee for Margaret Jull Costa (2012)

Os Cus de Judas

António Lobo Antunes

Paperback | Pages: 200 pages

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Title	:	Os Cus de Judas
Author	:	António Lobo Antunes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 200 pages
Published	:	2004 by Publicações Dom Quixote (first published 1979)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Portugal. European Literature. Portuguese Literature. War. Africa. Classics. Literature

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Logo depois de voltar da guerra em Angola, António Lobo Antunes escreve Os cus de Judas, sobre suas experiências naquele país. O romance se tornou um enorme sucesso, vindo a ser o primeiro grande livro sobre o conflito e a independência angolanos e uma referência histórica obrigatória.

Numa narrativa não-linear e fragmentada, Lobo Antunes revela as inquietações existenciais de um ser humano, na indelével experiência de uma guerra, que se misturam às memórias de infância e juventude na Lisboa salazarista.

O autor utiliza-se, na maior parte do romance, do fluxo de consciência e da associação de idéias, para construir a história e o perfil de seu narrador-protagonista, um personagem que, a partir de "uma dolorosa aprendizagem da agonia", vê sua vida e seus valores estilhaçados pela melancolia. O que lhe resta são fragmentos de memória - a criança que visitava com os pais o jardim zoológico aos domingos, o jovem que assiste impassível a seu futuro sendo traçado pela autoridade inquestionável de uma família salazarista, o adulto apático e frustrado diante da violência que lhe retira as rédeas e o sentido da vida.

O leitor vai estar frente a frente com "decadência, putrefação, pestilência e morte. Adicionando canalhice, violência e insensatez". Para o jornalista português Nuno Barbosa, "Lobo Antunes, dando plena expressão a uma escrita impiedosa e grosseira consegue uma harmonia preciosa entre a violência do narrado e a rudez dos termos utilizados - as suas palavras ganham, portanto, uma credibilidade muito maior, criando um elo profundo com a realidade."

O livro, que recebeu o prêmio Franco-Português conferido pela Embaixada da França em Lisboa, está na 21.ª edição em Portugal e já foi vendido para mais de dez países como Inglaterra, França, Itália, Alemanha e Suécia.

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The Portuguese VietnamWhile the USA was engaged during the 1960's and 70's in its insane war in Vietnam, Portugal was digging proportionately even deeper graves in its African colony of Angola (one and one half million men went to Africa, from a population of ten million; almost 80,000 died on all sides). Somewhat lower-tech than the American effort, the Portuguese troops went out not by jet plane but by ship. This was hardly a morale-building experience - they travelled in the same cargo holds



Alcoholic soliloquist leaning against the zinc of a Lisbon bar to charm a woman with shapes blossoming through a glass of whiskey that empties. But is one really trying to seduce? No we do not delude more about feelings: we want his square of skin that we will be able to flourish to the rhythm of his own impulses. For our man has it in the bag, enough to make you drain the sewers of the Praça do Commércio of the filth of all kinds that strew his thoughts. Thoughts croupies in this dirty war in

A fever dream of a book. The narrator tells of his nightmarish time spent in Angola fighting (well,technically probably not as he's a doctor) the rebels in what sounds like Portugal's version of Vietnam. The author himself was drafted and also worked as a medic out there so this comes from personal experience.Overwrought imagery really gets across the disconnect the man has between his 2 year experience abroad and normality in Lisbon.

I read this book shortly after it first came out. I was living in Angola at the time, and it helped me to understand what the Angolans had had to put up with during their war of independence, as well as the price that Portuguese conscripts had to pay for their rulers' hubris.

A tightly-packed bomb built of beautiful metaphors. Brutal at times, very sad at others. Highly recommended.

I've had this weird obsession with Angola for a while now. The idea of a decrepit oil kleptocracy that was the last outpost of the Portuguese Empire, which went from being a particularly ugly colonial government to a flashpoint in the Cold War to a failed state. I've read Kapuscinski on the subject, and Paul Theroux, and it was time to give Antunes a try, seeing as how vaunted the man is in the world of Lusophone writing.One nightmare after another is how it goes, each more hallucinatory than