by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420460659
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In 'The Stone Raft', José Saramago presents us with a bold narrative premise: a crack in the Pyrenees separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe, transforming it into a floating island heading south. Through this journey, Saramago explores themes of Iberian identity, ethics, and the importance of looking south to balance the world. The novel follows two women, three men, and a dog on their journey through the peninsula, as they reflect on their personal transformation in an ever-changing world. A work that invites reflection on culture, politics, and the human condition, with Saramago's unmistakable narrative style.
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."
