José Eduardo Agualusa
Born
in Huambo, Angola
December 13, 1960
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A General Theory of Oblivion
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58 editions
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2012
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The Book of Chameleons
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64 editions
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2004
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A Sociedade dos Sonhadores Involuntários
22 editions
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2017
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A Rainha Ginga e de Como os Africanos Inventaram o Mundo
9 editions
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2014
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Nação Crioula
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21 editions
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1997
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The Living and the Rest
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16 editions
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2020
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As Mulheres do Meu Pai
26 editions
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2007
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Barroco Tropical
19 editions
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2009
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A Vida no Céu
10 editions
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2013
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Um Estranho em Goa
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2001
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“Há quem confunda a alegria com a felicidade. A alegria não se parece com a felicidade, a não ser na medida em que um mar agitado se parece com um mar plácido. A água é a mesma, apenas isso. A alegria resulta de um entorpecimento do espírito, a felicidade de uma iluminação momentânea. O álcool pode levar-nos à alegria - ou um cigarro de liamba, ou um novo amor - porque nos obscurece temporariamente a inteligência. A alegria pode, pois, ser burra. A felicidade é outra coisa. Não ri às gargalhadas. Não se anuncia com fogo de artifício. Não faz estremecer estádios. Raras são as vezes em que nos apercebemos da felicidade no instante em que somos felizes.”
― Barroco Tropical
― Barroco Tropical
“When people look at clouds they do not see their real shape, which is no shape at all, or every shape, because they are constantly changing. They see whatever it is that their heart yearns for.”
― A General Theory of Oblivion
― A General Theory of Oblivion
“In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?"
Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few seconds. Then counter-attacked:
"I'm a liar by vocation," he shouted. "I lie with joy! Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance."
Then more soberly, he added - his voice lowered - that the principal difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is that in the former there exists only one truth, the truth as imposed by power, while in free countries every man has the right to defend his own version of events.
Truth, he said, is a superstition.”
― The Book of Chameleons
Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few seconds. Then counter-attacked:
"I'm a liar by vocation," he shouted. "I lie with joy! Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance."
Then more soberly, he added - his voice lowered - that the principal difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is that in the former there exists only one truth, the truth as imposed by power, while in free countries every man has the right to defend his own version of events.
Truth, he said, is a superstition.”
― The Book of Chameleons
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