A bio/grafia paratópica de António Lobo Antunes

Abstract

In this article, we aim at reflecting on the work of António Lobo Antunes in the light of Discourse Analysis, especially drawing upon the concept of paratopia as an insightful basis to appreciate the autobiographical dimension present (and confessed) in the books by this Portuguese author. Thus, we will use as a corpus, on the one hand, the novels Memória de elefante, Conhecimento do inferno and Os cus de Judas, who make up the initial trilogy of Antunes’s work. Moreover, we also rely on interviews by the writer to the extent that such statements make explicit the components of autobiographical books. All the press coverage we consulted was collected by two recent works, namely, the volumes organized by Blanco (2001) and Arnaud (2008).