by José Saramago · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788466326872
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«Claraboya» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial in paperback (424 pages, in Spanish).
A writer, leaning out of his window in a Lisbon neighbourhood in the mid-twentieth century, observes the lives of his neighbours: the shoemaker Silvestre, some seamstresses, a woman trapped with a brutal husband, the kept woman Lidia and the Spanish Carmen. From house to house, the narrator composes a choral portrait of lives governed by necessity, frustrations and small dreams under the silence of the dictatorship.
Spanish edition published in 2014; the cover shows the Debolsillo imprint, with the Contemporánea collection, while supplier records cite Punto de Lectura. The Portuguese original is titled Claraboia.
For readers of literary fiction and social novels, and for those who want to complete Saramago's work with a text written in his youth.
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."
