by José Saramago · Punto de Lectura · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466321020
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«Las pequeñas memorias» is the memoir by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in hardback (176 pages, in Spanish).
José Saramago recalls his childhood to show where the man he became came from. The narrative moves between Azinhaga, his native village, and Lisbon, where his family moved; it spans from age four to fifteen and portrays poverty, his grandparents, and the discovery of reading. It includes photographs with handwritten comments by the author.
The book was originally published as «As Pequenas Memórias» in 2006; this Spanish edition appeared in 2008. José Saramago received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
A book for readers of memoirs and for those who want to learn about the childhood and origins of José Saramago.
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."
