by José Saramago · Santillana · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420400549
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«Historia del cerco de Lisboa» is the historical novel by José Saramago, published by Santillana in hardcover (382 pages, in Spanish).
Raimundo Silva, a proofreader, introduces a «no» into a work about the conquest of Lisbon in the 12th century, so that the crusaders no longer help the Portuguese king. His decision triggers personal and professional consequences, while the novel reconstructs the siege and reflects on language, history and historiography.
Work originally published in 1989 as História do Cerco de Lisboa; this Spanish edition includes the translation by Basilio Losada.
For readers of historical fiction and Portuguese literature, as well as for followers of José Saramago.
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."
