by José Saramago · Caminho · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722120760
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«Caim» is the novel by José Saramago, published in 2009 by Caminho in paperback (181 pages, in Portuguese).
Cain, marked by God after killing his brother Abel, makes a pact with the creator and travels through the first books of the Bible, from Eden to the flood. The journey passes through decadent cities, tyrants' palaces and battlefields, in a continuous struggle between creator and creature. Saramago revisits biblical episodes with irony and humor.
The subtitle of the edition is «Romance»; its author received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
For readers of literary fiction who want a heterodox and ironic reinterpretation of biblical stories and Saramago's work.
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."
