by José Saramago · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789587044904
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«Las pequeñas memorias» is the autobiographical work by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in paperback (179 pages, in Spanish).
The author recalls his childhood between the village of Azinhaga and Lisbon, from age four to fifteen, and reconstructs a rural world marked by poverty and by the affections that shaped him. It is not an adult biography, but an inquiry into the child who still inhabits the writer; the volume includes photographs with his own handwritten comments.
Work originally published in Portuguese as As Pequenas Memórias (2006). Spanish edition of 2007 within the Alfaguara Biblioteca collection.
For readers of memoirs and contemporary literature who want to glimpse the origins of a Nobel Prize winner.
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."
