by José Saramago · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432205378
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«Memorial del convento» is the historical novel by José Saramago, published by Seix Barral in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
In 18th-century Portugal, the royal promise to build the Mafra convent intersects with the love story between Baltasar, a one-handed soldier, and Blimunda, who can see inside people. Together with Father Bartolomeu Lourenço, they attempt to build a flying machine in a novel of social criticism and magical realism.
Translation from Portuguese by Basilio Losada. Work originally published in 1982 as «Memorial do convento». Biblioteca Breve collection.
For readers of historical fiction and magical realism, with an interest in Portuguese literature and the work of Nobel Prize winner 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."
