by José Saramago · Alfaguara · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420400587
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«Levantado del suelo» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in hardback (382 pages, in Spanish).
The novel narrates the life of a peasant family from the Alentejo, in southern Portugal, over an extensive period marked by poverty and work on the latifundia. Saramago portrays popular resistance against the oppression of the large landowners, the Church and the Salazar regime, and the struggle for dignity.
The work was originally published in 1980; this Spanish-language edition by Alfaguara is from 2003.
For readers of social novels and classic fiction, interested in twentieth-century Portuguese narrative.
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."
