by José Saramago · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422623342
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis is a novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago, published in 1984. The story follows Ricardo Reis, one of the heteronyms of poet Fernando Pessoa, who returns to Lisbon after receiving news of Pessoa's death. The novel explores themes such as identity, memory, and reflection on life and death, all within the historical context of 1930s Portugal.
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."
