António Lobo Antunes

thumb|António Lobo Antunes, 2010 António Lobo Antunes (1 September 1942 – 5 March 2026) was a Portuguese novelist. Quotes Knowledge of Hell (2008) António Lobo Antunes (2008) Knowledge of Hell. Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections. p. 145 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. p. 191 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. p. 191 External links Category:1942 births Category:2026 deaths Category:Novelists from Portugal Category:Physicians Category:Jews Category:People from Lisbon