by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420411095
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«Claraboya» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in hardcover (424 pages, in Spanish).
In mid-twentieth-century Lisbon, the narrator’s gaze looks out of a neighborhood window and follows the day of its residents: Silvestre, Adriana, Justina, Lidia and Carmen. Chapter by chapter, it enters their homes and portrays a world of need, frustrations and small illusions under the silence of the dictatorship.
José Saramago wrote Claraboya at the age of thirty-one, and the novel was not published until 2012. It is part of the Biblioteca Saramago collection.
For fans of José Saramago and for those who want to discover the origins of his narrative universe and his characteristic ironic and compassionate gaze.
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."
