The Geographers' Manual

The abundance of place names in the novels of Lobo Antunes is not, as in some authors, a device used to "ground" their fictions, to make them more real, more down-to-earth. Place is largely what his novels are all about. The author has an especial love for his hometown, Lisbon, whose neighborhoods are often treated as major characters, with the people who inhabit them being occasionally reduced to caricatures, props, scenery. The prominence given to place makes these novels valuable sociological documents and challenges us, à la Copernicus, to realign our thinking. The Natural Order of Things and The Inquisitors' Manual serve as sample texts for my inquiry

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