LIVE Conversation Portrait: What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?

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LIVE from the NYPL artist-in-resident Flash Rosenberg takes on, "What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?" as discussed by António Lobo Antunes and Paul Holdengraber on September 23, 2008.

In "What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?", the preeminent Portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes, who trained as a psychiatrist and spent four years in the Portuguese army during the Angolan War, tells a story of sanity lost, of madness and consumption. This is a saga of growing old, of loving no matter what, and finally, of a young man ineluctably coming to terms with the sins of his father and the life he has inherited now.

Based on a real life story and set in the steamy world of Lisbon's nightclub milieu of the 1990s—a baleful planet populated by drag queens, clowns, and drug addicts—the son of a legendary transvestite searches for his identity as he recalls the harrowing death of his father. The razor-thin line between reality and madness is fully transgressed in Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years.

Direction and live drawing: Flash Rosenberg
Video editor: Sarah Lohman

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• António Lobo Antunes
• Flash Rosenberg
• Sarah Lohman
• animation
• Conversation Portraits
• NYPL
• LIVE from the NYPL
• New York Public Library

[Outraviaa]

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[pilaenorme]

VERY GOOD!!! A Piece.

[JodyBoo22]

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