by Antonio Lobo Antunes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722017831
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«Não Entres Tão Depressa Nessa Noite Escura» is the novel by António Lobo Antunes, published by Publicações Dom Quixote in paperback (551 pages).
Maria Clara, the narrator, recalls her life and takes refuge in invented stories while her father lies dying in a hospital. The novel, defined by its author as a poem, advances through fragments, memories and imagined characters, and takes its title from a line by Dylan Thomas.
It is António Lobo Antunes's fourteenth novel, published in 2000 with the subtitle «Poema». The title refers to the line «Do not go gentle into that good night», by Dylan Thomas.
Work for readers of contemporary Portuguese literature interested in introspective, fragmentary narrative with poetic prose.
António Lobo Antunes was a Portuguese novelist and medical doctor. He was awarded the 2000 Austrian State Prize, the 2003 Ovid Prize, the 2005 Jerusalem Prize, the 2007 Camões Prize, and the 2008 Juan Rulfo Prize. Lobo Antunes was repeatedly nominated as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
