A tormenta da escrita - uma leitura do romance O manual dos inquisidores, de António Lobo Antunes

Abstract

The novel O manual dos inquisidores, by the portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes apparently refers to a common theme: the rise and fall of a mighty man. Nevertheless, power is overwhelmed by a writing that hides an inoperative knowledge, perhaps a non-knowledge, an unprofitable and mendacious speech, that develops from itself, eliding the rhetoric, mythological and ideological character of literature. This paper intends to demonstrate the tormenting search of absolute by this writing that disrupts with the utilitary narrative to make itself art in its eccentricity and excesses.