by José Saramago · Alfaguara. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420478401
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«El cuento de la isla desconocida» is the fable by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in paperback (50 pages, in Spanish).
In an imaginary kingdom, a tenacious man asks the king for a ship to set sail in search of the unknown island he sees in his dreams. From that request, Saramago weaves a parable about human curiosity, the desire to discover the unknown, and the finding of one's own path.
This work was translated from Portuguese by Pilar del Río and illustrated by Manuel Estrada. The original title is O conto da ilha desconhecida, published in 1997.
For readers who want a first approach to José Saramago or a short story with a philosophical background.
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."
