by José Saramago · Círculo de Lectores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422687795
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«La Caverna» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Círculo de Lectores in 2001 in paperback (398 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows a family of potters whose craft is threatened by market changes and modernization. Saramago combines the routine of the workshop with a reflection on the fragility of the human condition, the importance of traditions, and the search for meaning in a world dominated by consumption.
Translation by Pilar del Río. This edition belongs to the Biblioteca José Saramago collection. The work was originally published in Portuguese as «A Caverna» in 2000.
Recommended for readers of contemporary literary fiction seeking stories with social, philosophical, and anti-consumerist undertones.
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."
