by José Saramago · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420428628
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In 'Lanzarote Notebooks', José Saramago offers us an intimate look at his daily life during the years 1993 to 1995. This book is not a simple diary, but a set of reflections and opinions about his time, as well as the questions and answers that arise from his creative activity. Through its pages, the reader can delve into the writer's daily life, understanding his vision of the world and his relationship with literary creation.
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."
