by José Saramago · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429761771
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«El viatge de l'elefant» is the historical novel by José Saramago, published by Edicions 62 in hardback (208 pages, in Catalan).
In the 16th century, King John III of Portugal gives an Asian elephant, Solomon, to Archduke Maximilian of Austria. The novel follows Solomon and his keeper Subhro from Lisbon to Vienna, via Valladolid, Genoa and the Alps. Saramago uses irony and humour to portray that unusual journey and those who witness it.
This novel, originally published in Portuguese as A Viagem do Elefante, appears in a Catalan translation by Núria Prats Espar and belongs to the El Balancí collection.
Intended for readers of historical and literary fiction, and for those who appreciate Saramago's irony and humour.
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."
