by José Saramago · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466302326
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«La balsa de piedra» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (496 pages, in Spanish).
A crack in the Pyrenees separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe and turns it into a vast raft adrift in the Atlantic. Two women, three men, and a dog travel across the peninsula as it drifts southward; Saramago uses this journey to explore Iberian identity and the relationship of its peoples with Europe.
Novel translated by Basilio Losada from the original Portuguese 'A Jangada de Pedra'. José Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
For readers of magical realism and twentieth-century Iberian narrative, or for those who want to approach Saramago's work.
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."
