by José Saramago · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420400563
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«El año de la muerte de Ricardo Reis» is the novel by José Saramago, published in hardback (462 pages, in Spanish).
Ricardo Reis, one of the poet Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms, returns to Lisbon after the poet's death. Saramago blends history and imagination to explore identity, solitude, and death, against the backdrop of 1930s Portugal.
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."
