by José Saramago · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490628799
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In 'Cain,' José Saramago returns to the first books of the Bible to offer us a heterodox and mordant vision of the Old Testament. We accompany Cain on an ironic journey through decadent cities, stables, palaces of tyrants, and battlefields, always hand in hand with the main biblical protagonists. Saramago, with his modern and surprising prose, invites us to reflect on the origin of power, religious manipulation, and the eternal war between the creator and his creature. A novel that challenges traditional interpretations and confronts us with a critical and human vision of the foundational myths.
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
