by José Saramago · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788490628782
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«El viaje del elefante» is the novel by José Saramago published by Debolsillo in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
In the sixteenth century, King John III of Portugal gives his cousin Maximilian of Austria an Asian elephant named Solomon. Amid courtly whims and absurd decisions, the animal travels across Europe on a journey where the real and the invented intersect; Saramago reflects on the human condition with humour, irony and compassion.
Work originally published in Portuguese as «A Viagem do Elefante» in 2008; the Spanish translation is by Pilar del Río.
For readers of literary fiction aged 16 and over, with an interest in historical fiction, travel and the work of 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."
