by José Saramago · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422625735
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«La balsa de piedra» is the novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago published by Círculo de Lectores in 1988, in Spanish.
A crack runs through the Pyrenees and the Iberian Peninsula becomes a floating island drifting into the Atlantic. Without oars or sails, its inhabitants witness a collective journey that pits Spain and Portugal against Latin America and challenges US dominance. The blend of the fantastic and the real allows Saramago to reflect on identity, culture, and the human condition.
Translation and introduction by Basilio Losada. Original work in Portuguese published in 1986 under the title A jangada de pedra.
For readers of contemporary fiction and magical realism interested in Portuguese literature and the big collective questions.
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."
