by José Saramago · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781846553608
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«The Elephant's Journey» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Harvill Secker in hardback (200 pages, in English).
The elephant Solomon is sent by King John III as a wedding gift to Archduke Maximilian. With his keeper Subhro he travels on foot from Lisbon to Vienna, through Castile, Genoa and the Alps. Based on the real journey of 1551, it blends history, fable and fantasy.
English translation by Margaret Jull Costa. Original Portuguese: A Viagem do Elefante (2008). Won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize in 2011.
Historical and literary fiction for readers who appreciate Saramago and travel novels with reflection on the human condition.
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."
