by José Saramago · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466354714
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In a land without name or time, a man knocks on the king's door to ask for a boat with which to set sail in search of the unknown island. The bureaucratic obstacles, the difficulty in undertaking the journey, the origin of the crew, the necessary supplies and even the site of the presumed island will be the object of this seemingly simple narration, but which gains depth with each page. In the end, what could pass for a simple fable will become a fascinating philosophical tale capable of satisfying both readers of Voltaire and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. With humor and wisdom, Saramago gives us a small masterpiece about the permanent yearnings of humanity. Our edition is completed with the fabulous illustrations by Manuel Estrada, which highlight the mystery and charm present in the imagination of the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner.
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."
