by José Saramago · Círculo De Lectores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467250022
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«Claraboya» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
In mid-20th-century Lisbon, a narrator observes the residents of a building over the course of a day: the shoemaker Silvestre, Adriana, Justina, Lidia and Carmen. He stops being a witness and sees through each character's eyes a world of need, frustrations and small illusions, under the silence of the dictatorship.
Work originally published as «Claraboia» in 2011; this Spanish edition includes the translation by Pilar del Río.
For readers of literary fiction and Portuguese literature, interested in the work of Saramago.
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."
