by José Saramago · Alfaguara · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420443546
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«La flor más grande del mundo» is the children's story by José Saramago, illustrated by João Caetano, published by Alfaguara in hardback with 26 pages.
A boy discovers a flower fading in an arid landscape and is determined to bring it water. He crosses territories he does not know, strays from home, and finally rests beside the plant, which has grown enormously. When his family finds him asleep beneath it and understands what happened, his action inspires admiration.
Work originally published in Portuguese under the title A Maior Flor do Mundo; this Spanish edition came out in 2001.
Aimed at child and adult readers, it offers a symbolic reading by a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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."
