"Lobo Antunes integrates into his writing his background as a psychiatrist [...] with ironic and subtle details of the daily life of Lisbon’s upper-middle-class society: from the traumas of the war, to the simple story of the doorman, or the couple struggling to keep their marriage intact and functional — everything serves as material to develop and weave a complex plot that many readers consider labyrinthine and difficult to follow."

Castro, C.F. (2009).; - VOICES IN SEARCH OF A READER: THE POLYPHONIC WRITING OF ANTÓNIO LOBO ANTUNES; Évora.

"[...] the reader is invited to enter the literary space, feeling compelled to participate in its creation — that is, in the mimesis of the process — and to become a co-author within a narrative that is still in the making. [...] The work constantly demands that the reader take part in its discursive process, “listening” to the characters who seem to address them directly, gathering, deciphering, and connecting fragments, pieces of a puzzle that gradually comes together [...]"

Navas, D. (2017). Metaficção e Co-Autoria – O Leitor e O Jogo De Espelhos Em O Manual Dos Inquisidores, De António Lobo Antunes; Revista e-Scrita : Revista Do Curso De Letras Da UNIABEU.