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Sorrows from the Portuguese
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THE INQUISITORS' MANUAL
By Antonio Lobo Antunes
Translated from the Portuguese
By Richard Zenith
Grove. 435 pp. $25
Portugal's Antonio Lobo Antunes is one of those foreign novelists
who can write circles around most American writers. Yet he has never
caught on here. This has probably less to do with his high-modernist
technique (reminiscent of Faulkner's), which can be challenging, than
with his subject matter, the tribulations of Portuguese society
during the long dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar from 1932
to 1968. Not exactly a hot topic. But with a half-dozen splendid
novels now ...
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