by José Saramago · Alfaguara · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420400389
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«La Caverna» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in hardcover (398 pages, in Spanish).
«La Caverna» follows a family of potters whose craft has ceased to be necessary in a world dominated by a gigantic shopping mall that expands without limits, and reflects on the extinction of traditions, the obsolescence of trades and the illusion of consumerism.
«La Caverna» forms a triptych with «Ensayo sobre la ceguera» and «Todos los nombres», by José Saramago.
For readers of literary fiction interested in the work of José Saramago and in novels with social, philosophical and critical undertones.
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."
