by José Saramago · Planeta Pub Corp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432205248
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«El año de la muerte de Ricardo Reis» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Seix Barral in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
Lisbon, 1935. Ricardo Reis, one of the poet Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms, returns from Brazil just as Pessoa has died. Over nine months marked by the Spanish Civil War and the Italian intervention in Abyssinia, Reis converses with Pessoa's spirit, who visits him from the cemetery at unexpected moments. The novel is a meditation on the meaning of an era, with Lisbon's rainy, enveloping atmosphere as the true protagonist.
The work belongs to the Biblioteca Breve collection from Seix Barral. Translated from the Portuguese by Basilio Losada.
A read for those seeking contemporary literary fiction and for readers interested in Saramago's work or in the figure of Fernando Pessoa and his heteronyms.
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."
