
by José Saramago · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420407555

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«Ensayo sobre la lucidez» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in hardback (437 pages, in Spanish).
In an unnamed city, during municipal elections, most inhabitants go to the polls and vote unexpectedly. Saramago explores the consequences of that civic rebellion and turns the episode into a reflection on democracy, power, and the system's response to the unforeseen.
Part of the Biblioteca Saramago collection. Translation by Pilar del Río; original title: Ensaio sobre a lucidez.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in political and social criticism.

José Saramago was a Portuguese writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. His allegorical work, written in a prose that breaks typographic conventions, is one of the most acclaimed in contemporary European literature.
