by José Saramago · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466369442
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«Levantado del suelo» is the novel by José Saramago published in 2007 by Punto de Lectura in hardback (432 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows several generations of a peasant family from the Alentejo between 1910 and 1979, portraying the poverty, ignorance and submission of Portuguese rural life: the land uprisings and the fleeting hope brought by the Carnation Revolution. Saramago composes a collective fresco with humour and prose rooted in popular speech.
The novel belongs to the Biblioteca Saramago, a Punto de Lectura collection, and this is the large-format edition. Saramago won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
It will appeal both to devoted fans of José Saramago and to those wishing to discover the author's fiction.
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."
