by José Saramago · Punto De Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466314749
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«Ensayo sobre la lucidez» is the dystopian novel by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (464 pages, in Spanish).
In an unnamed city, municipal elections take an unexpected turn: most voters decide to exercise their right to vote individually and unexpectedly. The authorities, fearing a conspiracy, seek those responsible even if they have to invent them. Saramago offers a reflection on democracy, power and civic consciousness.
Second instalment of Saramago's «Ceguera» series, following «Ensayo sobre la ceguera». Original title: «Ensaio sobre a lucidez» (2004). Nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2007).
For readers of dystopian fiction and political criticism, as well as followers of the work of Nobel Prize in Literature 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."
