Article: The Fat Man and Infinity and Other Writings BOOKS

Dwight Garner The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
02-25-2009
The Fat Man and Infinity and Other Writings BOOKS
Byline: Dwight Garner The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: FEATURES

The Fat Man and Infinity and Other Writings

By Antonio Lobo Antunes
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

396 pages. W.W. Norton & Co. $26.95.

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Writing last year in The Nation, Natasha Wimmer, the gifted young translator of Roberto Bolano's major novels into English, described the rivalry between the Portuguese novelists Jose Saramago and Antonio Lobo Antunes. When Saramago won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998, Wimmer wrote, "there were those who believed that the wrong ...

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