by José Saramago · Punto De Lectura · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788466308472
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«El año de la muerte de Ricardo Reis» is the historical novel by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (608 pages, in Spanish).
In 1935 Lisbon, Ricardo Reis, one of Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms, returns to the city after living in Brazil. For nine months, the poet coexists with Pessoa's spirit, who visits him from the cemetery, while Europe heads toward war and the city becomes a stage for love, politics, and reflection on the era.
Novel originally published in Portuguese in 1984 and translated into Spanish for this 2002 edition. José Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
A read for lovers of historical fiction, Portuguese literature, and the work of José 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."
