by José Saramago · Proa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482566931
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«Memorial del convent» is a historical novel by José Saramago, published by Proa in paperback (290 pages, in Catalan).
Set in 18th-century Portugal, the novel recounts the construction of the Mafra convent under John V and the relationship between Baltasar, a one-handed soldier, and Blimunda, a woman with uncommon abilities. A priest who dreams of flying also appears, in a story marked by love, the Inquisition and fantastical elements.
Catalan translation of «Memorial do convento», a novel originally published in 1982. The book is part of the A tot vent-nou collection. José Saramago won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary narrative interested in 18th-century Portugal and the work of José Saramago.
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."
