by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420428192
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«Casi un objeto» is José Saramago's collection of short stories, published by Alfaguara in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Six stories mixing reality and fantasy: a woodworm gnaws at a dictator's seat, a man is trapped by his car, a cemetery puts an end to all others, objects rebel, a centaur emerges from the shadows, and a boy crosses a river. With irony and reflection, Saramago probes death, obsession, and the nature of the real.
The Spanish edition was published in 1994, translated by Eduardo Naval. The Portuguese original, «Objecto Quase», appeared in 1978.
For readers of short fiction who appreciate political satire and the fantastic, as well as the work of the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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."
