by José Saramago · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420400600
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«Casi un objeto» is a collection of short stories by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in hardcover (187 pages, in Spanish).
Stories that portray common situations from an unusual perspective: a dictator falls from his chair, Arabs stop selling oil, and the dead become the best friends of the living. With irony and a critical eye, Saramago plays with appearances and shows that nothing is what it seems.
The work was originally published in Portuguese as «Objecto Quase» in 1978; this Spanish edition appeared in 2003.
For readers of short fiction and for those who want to approach the work of a Nobel Prize in Literature winner.
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."
