Knowledge of Hell

by António Lobo Antunes and   

Like his creator, the narrator of this novel is a psychiatrist who loathes psychiatry, a veteran of the despised 1970s colonial war waged by Portugal against Angola, a survivor of a failed marriage, and a man seeking meaning in an uncaring and venal society. The reader joins Antunes on a journey both real and phantasmagorical as he travels by car from a vacation in the Algarve back to his hated work as a psychiatrist at a Lisbon mental institution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564784363
• ISBN13: 9781564784360
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher