by José Saramago · B Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466309493
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«Levantado del suelo» is the novel by José Saramago, published by B Ediciones in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows several generations of a peasant family from the Alentejo, from 1910 to 1979. It portrays a rural world of poverty, ignorance and submission, with hunger and sacrifices, but also with uprisings and occupations of farms. It culminates with the Carnation Revolution and the hope it brings to the characters.
It is part of the Punto de Lectura collection, in its Spanish edition. The cover states that José Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
For devoted Saramago fans and for those who want to discover his narrative, it is a good gateway to his work.
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."
