by José Saramago · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432206221
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«Historia del cerco de Lisboa» is the novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago, published by Seix Barral in paperback (315 pages, in Spanish).
Raimundo Silva, a proofreader, rebelliously inserts a «no» into a history book about the siege of Lisbon and transforms the account of events. That gesture opens a reflection on memory, fiction and language, in which historical narrative and personal experience constantly intersect.
Work originally published in Portuguese in 1989 as «História do Cerco de Lisboa»; this Spanish edition from Seix Barral appeared in 1990 in the Biblioteca Breve collection.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction interested in how the past is constructed and in the work of 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."
