by José Saramago · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429748024
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«La caverna» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Edicions 62 in hardcover, in the El Balancí collection (288 pages, in Catalan).
Cipriano Algor is a potter whose workshop collapses when the city grows and a large shopping mall is built. Forced to leave his village and his trade, he moves to the center and witnesses the clash between the traditional world, already doomed, and a new reality dominated by economic power and big retail spaces.
Catalan translation by Xavier Pàmies Giménez. Saramago won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Saramago's work and in stories about the tension between tradition and consumption.
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."
