by José Saramago · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789723704402
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«The Tale of the Unknown Island» is the short story by José Saramago published by Assírio & Alvim in paperback, with 35 pages and text in English.
The story is framed as a quest: the desire to find an unknown island becomes a reflection on identity and adventure. With an allegorical tone and a brief length, Saramago develops the journey as a metaphor for personal discovery, in line with Portuguese literature.
Special edition of the Portuguese Pavilion at EXPO '98, Notebooks of the Portuguese Pavilion series. English translation by Christine Robinson; drawings by Pedro Cabrita Reis. Original: O conto da ilha desconhecida (1997).
For readers of short stories and Portuguese literature, as well as followers of José Saramago, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
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."
