by José Saramago · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466304597
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«El cuento de la isla desconocida» is a fable by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (80 pages, in Spanish).
A man asks the king for a caravel to search for an unknown island in an imaginary kingdom. From that request, Saramago builds a tale about bureaucracy, power, and identity: the protagonist knows he must move between reality and dream to find his place in the world.
The work was originally published in 1997 as «O conto da ilha desconhecida». José Saramago won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
Suitable for the general public and for those seeking an introduction to Saramago's narrative.
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."
