by José Saramago · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466318464
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The Tale of the Unknown Island is a fable by the renowned author José Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The story follows a man who tirelessly seeks the king's authorization to embark on a search for an unknown island. Through this quest, Saramago presents us with a reflection on the human condition, the importance of dreams, and the search for personal identity. An exquisite work that invites reflection and questioning of our own existence.
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."
