by José Saramago · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466369053
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«Viaje a Portugal» is the travel book by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (624 pages, in Spanish).
José Saramago travels through Portugal from north to south, from Trás-os-Montes to the Algarve and from Lisbon to the Alentejo, to portray the landscape, culture and people of the country. The book gathers the impressions of an observant traveller and combines description of places, history and memory to understand Portuguese reality and reveal its past.
Originally published as «Viagem a Portugal» in 1981, translated by Basilio Losada. Saramago won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
A work for readers of travel literature and for those who want to learn about Portuguese culture or relive their memories of Portugal.
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."
