by José Saramago · Unidad Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481302196
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«Viaje a Portugal» is the travel book by José Saramago, published by Unidad Editorial in hardback (415 pages, in Spanish), with a foreword by Claudio Magris.
Saramago travels through Portugal from north to south and records the impressions of a journey that goes from Trás-os-Montes to the Algarve and from Lisbon to the Alentejo. Landscape, culture, history and its people follow one another in a chronicle that seeks to understand the country through the traveller's gaze.
The work belongs to the collection Las 100 joyas del milenio and the translation from Portuguese is by Basilio Losada.
For those who enjoy travel literature and want to discover Portugal through the eyes 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."
