by José Saramago · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788490628812
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Claraboya is a novel by José Saramago that transports us to Lisbon in the mid-20th century, where the novelist's gaze rests on a diverse neighborhood. Through its characters, Saramago shows us a world marked by need, frustrations and illusions, all under the shadow of the dictatorship. With meticulous writing, the author portrays an era of despair and anticipates the elements that will characterize his literary universe. This work, written when Saramago was thirty-one years old, is a luminous portrait of a dark era and a gift for readers who wish to continue enjoying his legacy.
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."
