by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420442280
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«La caverna» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in paperback (456 pages, in Spanish).
A family of potters —Cipriano Algor, his daughter and his son-in-law— watch their craft lose meaning in the face of a gigantic shopping centre that grows without limits. Saramago turns Plato's allegory of the cave into a parable about contemporary society, obsolescence and the vertigo of change, where the family pottery business confronts the logic of a world that no longer needs it. A reflection on the professions, traditions and feelings that are extinguished every day.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1998, José Saramago (1922-2010) is one of the most recognised writers in the Portuguese language. The novel is part of the Biblioteca Saramago collection, which brings together his work in Spanish.
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking a fable with philosophical depth and social criticism.
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."
