Universal theory of oblivion
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In his youth, Luda survived a psychological trauma. Over the years, she came to her senses, but the fear of open spaces remained with her forever. Even to the store, she goes with a huge black umbrella, fencing off them from the outside world. After the sister got married and left for Angola, Luda also leaves his native Portugal to settle in Africa. She does not suspect that she is waiting. When a revolution begins in Angola, the capital of Luanda covers the riots. Left one puddle, takes the only step that can protect her from the horror of open spaces: she walked the door to her home. From now on, her life will proceed in complete isolation, behind life outside the walls of her dwelling can only peep from her upper floor. "Universal theory of oblivion" is a book about memory and unconsciousness, about life alone with himself and about a world that does not allow a person to remain alone, about attempts to forget at the same time to remember everything. In 2017, Roman is a prestigious Dublin Prize, and a year earlier was nominated for an international booker.
Like the Portuguese Fernando Pessoa and Argentine Horhe Luis Borhees, Portugal -Angolsk writer Zhuza Eduard Agualuz - an unsurpassed master of literary tricks, he literally blinds with his imagination ... Agualuz juggles, instantly moving from a spy native romance, from a children Realism, but the main thing in his book is the characters in which he put his entire heart, and therefore the story he told is very deep, forcing us to reconsider our ability to empathize.
Minneapolis Star tribune
The storyteller-virtuoso. The sweet -mild atonement, to which all his characters move, is so genuine that there is no doubt - they deserved him.
Washington Independent Review of Books
History challenges our prevailing ideas that there is always a feature between the "hero" and the villain, which none of them can cross. The novel does what real literature should do - captivates and completely deprives the ability to break out of this captivity.
Words without borders
Each page is assimiled by imagination.
The Irish Independent
Louis de Bernher"s ease and ease and the acute perspicacity of J. M. Kutzee ... Prose of Agualuza - pleasure from the first to the last word. He opens the world for us the world of Portuguese Africa. And it fascinates.
The Scotsman
"Universal theory of oblivion" is also a universal theory of love, life, death and, finally, literature. Agualuz in his novel makes impossible, strange and wonderful: his book is a deriving dervish out of pain, joy, blood, memory. From his prose, radiance comes, as from a rotating gold ingot. I am delighted with his stories, this is a book of those that changes you.
Dustin Illingworth, Quarterly Conversation
No doubt one of the most important Portuguese writers of their generation.
Ant? Nio Lobo Antunes
Cross J.M. Kutzeee and G.G. Markes - and you will receive the prose of Zhuza Eduard Agualuza, an obvious Portuguese candidate for the Nobel Prize.
Alan Kaufman
witty, ironic, inexpressibly bright and swift novel. A delightful journey.
The Independent
A brilliant, tense and witty novel.
The Times Literary Supplement
The author survived the psychological experience of his heroine of the narrative. When he worked as a journalist, he had political disagreements with the Angolan regime: “I received threats of murder, and I was afraid to leave the house. It was then that for the first time I thought about how I could survive, locking myself on my floor. ” Agualuz characters are so bright that they do not require long descriptions. Some chapters of the novel occupy no more than a page. Agualuz is well acquainted with the reality of the three countries on three continents where he alternately lives - Portugal, Angola and Brazil - and all three countries had a noticeable influence on his work.
El Pais
Agualuza is the first Portugal -speaking author, who won one of the most prestigious world literary awards, International Dublin Literary Award. The jury of the prize highlights the author’s ability to inspire “understanding and hope” to its readers, operating with Angolan realities, which in its interpretation become global.
pblico
Like the Portuguese Fernando Pessoa and Argentine Horhe Luis Borhees, Portugal -Angolsk writer Zhuza Eduard Agualuz - an unsurpassed master of literary tricks, he literally blinds with his imagination ... Agualuz juggles, instantly moving from a spy native romance, from a children Realism, but the main thing in his book is the characters in which he put his entire heart, and therefore the story he told is very deep, forcing us to reconsider our ability to empathize.
Minneapolis Star tribune
The storyteller-virtuoso. The sweet -mild atonement, to which all his characters move, is so genuine that there is no doubt - they deserved him.
Washington Independent Review of Books
History challenges our prevailing ideas that there is always a feature between the "hero" and the villain, which none of them can cross. The novel does what real literature should do - captivates and completely deprives the ability to break out of this captivity.
Words without borders
Each page is assimiled by imagination.
The Irish Independent
Louis de Bernher"s ease and ease and the acute perspicacity of J. M. Kutzee ... Prose of Agualuza - pleasure from the first to the last word. He opens the world for us the world of Portuguese Africa. And it fascinates.
The Scotsman
"Universal theory of oblivion" is also a universal theory of love, life, death and, finally, literature. Agualuz in his novel makes impossible, strange and wonderful: his book is a deriving dervish out of pain, joy, blood, memory. From his prose, radiance comes, as from a rotating gold ingot. I am delighted with his stories, this is a book of those that changes you.
Dustin Illingworth, Quarterly Conversation
No doubt one of the most important Portuguese writers of their generation.
Ant? Nio Lobo Antunes
Cross J.M. Kutzeee and G.G. Markes - and you will receive the prose of Zhuza Eduard Agualuza, an obvious Portuguese candidate for the Nobel Prize.
Alan Kaufman
witty, ironic, inexpressibly bright and swift novel. A delightful journey.
The Independent
A brilliant, tense and witty novel.
The Times Literary Supplement
The author survived the psychological experience of his heroine of the narrative. When he worked as a journalist, he had political disagreements with the Angolan regime: “I received threats of murder, and I was afraid to leave the house. It was then that for the first time I thought about how I could survive, locking myself on my floor. ” Agualuz characters are so bright that they do not require long descriptions. Some chapters of the novel occupy no more than a page. Agualuz is well acquainted with the reality of the three countries on three continents where he alternately lives - Portugal, Angola and Brazil - and all three countries had a noticeable influence on his work.
El Pais
Agualuza is the first Portugal -speaking author, who won one of the most prestigious world literary awards, International Dublin Literary Award. The jury of the prize highlights the author’s ability to inspire “understanding and hope” to its readers, operating with Angolan realities, which in its interpretation become global.
pblico
Author:
Author:Agualuz Zhuze Eduard
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-86471-804-9
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