by José Saramago · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440692283
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«Memorial del convent» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Ediciones B in paperback (400 pages).
The novel is set in 18th-century Portugal and narrates the construction of the Convent of Mafra, as well as the love story between Baltasar Mateus and Blimunda. Saramago uses this double plot to reflect on power, religion, love and the human condition, with Portuguese society of the time as a backdrop.
The novel was originally published in 1982. The 1999 edition is part of the Biblioteca de Butxaca collection, number 26.
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."
