by José Saramago · Punto De Lectura · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788466323420
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«El viaje del elefante» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
In the mid-16th century, King John III of Portugal decides to give his cousin Maximilian of Austria an Asian elephant named Solomon. The narrative follows the animal's eventful journey across Europe, amid court whims and absurd plans, and combines real facts with invention to reflect with humour and compassion on the human condition.
The original title of the work, in Portuguese, is «A Viagem do Elefante»; this Spanish edition was published in 2010.
A novel for readers of literary fiction and for those who already know or want to discover 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."
