António Lobo Antunes, a Portuguese novelist who died this week at 83, used modernist prose to chronicle his country's fascist dictatorship and colonial wars in Africa across more than 30 novels. His densely stylized works, including "The Land at the End of the World," confronted Portugal's historical traumas through grammatically unconventional narratives combining nihilism, farce, and surrealism.
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António Lobo Antunes, a Portuguese novelist who died this week at 83, used modernist prose to chronicle his country's fascist dictatorship and colonial wars in Africa across more than 30 novels. His densely stylized works, including "The Land at the End of the World," confronted Portugal's historical traumas through grammatically unconventional narratives combining nihilism, farce, and surrealism.