“Je chemine comme une maison qui brûle”
“Walking Like a Burning House”

Summary/Abstract: The dialogue between António Lobo Antunes and Dinu Flămând (Cluj-Napoca, 7 October 2014) is multifaceted, addressing various themes: the function of literature, the autobiographical condition, and the carnival of writing and the playfulness of life. It is a literary dialogue in which the two partners complete and amicably tease one another on issues pertaining to literature, but in such a way as to propel ideas and speculations and memories that turn this dialogue into a prose of the autofiction type. It is just that, in this case, there are only two authors: a primary author (António Lobo Antunes, the guest) and a secondary author (Dinu Flămând, who has assumed the role of a catalyst for the memory of his Portuguese friend). The quotations and the evocation of other famous writers also turn this dialogue into a mini-essay, uttered in near musical cadences and featuring narrative and poematic inserts.

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