by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420471297
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«Las pequeñas memorias» is José Saramago's memoir, published by Alfaguara in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
The author recovers his early years, from age four to fifteen, between his native village and Lisbon: the olive groves, the rivers, the chores with his grandparents, the neighborhood cinema, and the birth of his vocation as a writer. An exercise in memory that starts from the child he was to explain the man and writer he became.
2007 edition within the Biblioteca Saramago collection. Translation by Pilar del Río of the Portuguese original «As pequenas memórias».
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."
