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Eikon journal on semiotics and culture

2019; Linguagem: Inglês

10.20287/eikon

2183-6426

António Lobo, Antunes Eikon Suicídios, António Lobo Antunes, Norberto Cardoso, Unamuno Menciona Os Casos De Antero De Quental, Camilo Castelo, Manuel Bandeira,

Media and Digital Communication

The Portuguese colonial war has been progressively forgotten, but it stayed as heavy ballast among those who fought and survived.In literature, the work of António Lobo Antunes may be the best example of the negative effects of that war, such as suicide, mostly in his first novels, although it reappeared in a recent book: Não É Meia Noite Quem Quer.Suicide is not only a physical phenomenon, but it is represented as inner exile, loneliness, escape, silence.Are we still, like Unamuno said, a suicidal nation?Or suicide is today connected with the necessity of a collective autognosis, necessary in a time that is being considered as post-colonial?