by José Saramago · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440652621
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«Las maletas del viajero» is a collection of journalistic chronicles by José Saramago, published by Ediciones B in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
These are 59 journalistic chronicles written between 1969 and 1972 for the newspaper A Capital and the weekly Jornal de Fundão. Saramago evokes his childhood and family, and analyses with irony politics, advertising, urban life, art and museums, with a direct style and sharp humour.
The Spanish translation is by Basilio Losada; this edition was published in March 2001 and has 288 pages.
For readers interested in Saramago's journalistic work and his chronicles of social observation.
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."
