António Lobo Antunes Quotes

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Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.

António Lobo Antunes

Nothing else exists for them [Psychiatrists] in the universe beyond enormous mothers and fathers, colossal, almost cosmic, and a child reduced to an anus, penis, and mouth who maintains with these two unbearable creatures a singular relationship from which are excluded spontaneity and joy.

António Lobo Antunes

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

António Lobo Antunes

António Lobo Antunes

António Lobo Antunes

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Born: September 1, 1942

Died: March 5, 2026 (aged 83)

Bio: António Lobo Antunes was a Portuguese novelist and medical doctor. He was repeatedly nominated as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Known for:

The Land at the End of the World (1979)
The return of the caravels (2002)
Fado Alexandrino (1983)
Knowledge of Hell (2008)
The inquisitors' manual (2003)

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