by José Saramago · Alfaguara · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420400662
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«Cuadernos de Lanzarote IV» is the fourth volume of José Saramago's diaries, published by Alfaguara in hardback (238 pages, in Spanish).
Fourth volume of the diaries José Saramago wrote during his stay in Lanzarote. It collects the 1997 entries: daily impressions, memories, and reflections on life, death, and the human condition. The edition includes Quevedo's verses «Retirado en la paz de estos desiertos...».
Published in 2003; the cover shows the subtitle (1997), which places the entries in that year.
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."
