The proposal of this dissertation is to explore, throughout António Lobo Antunes´s chronicles, the relations between the urban contemporaneous man and his living space, inquiring to emphasize and point out the importance of his texts, to the apprehension of those relations, on the elaboration of a nowadays sketch. The author print out in his texts the scenery of his own time, that is, this universe embraces all the generations borned on the middle of the XX century, who grew up after the 2º Great World War and were and still are witnesses of the death of politicals and socials ideals and appearance of an individual uncentered and without a main axle, with the scarceness of his references and his old values changed, into a new society managed by a continuous expanding capitalist market. Those mutations, which are reflected, trough architecture and urbanism, into the spaces and environments lived by this individual, are captured with precision by the unique look of the author in his chronicles. His perception and specially observation of the uncomfortableness and unreguleness of contemporaneous man, when exploring Lisbon urban life, exceeds cultural borders of this city reaching any nowadays reader.