by José Saramago · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429748338
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«L'any de la mort de Ricardo Reis» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (480 pages, in Catalan).
After the death of Fernando Pessoa, Ricardo Reis, one of his heteronyms: doctor, poet and exile in Brazil, returns to Lisbon. The life of the writer and that of his creation intertwine in a reflection on truth, the unity of the individual and nostalgia for the city.
Catalan translation by Víctor Martínez Gil. The work was originally published under the title «O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis» in 1984.
Catalan edition from the Butxaca collection, aimed at readers of contemporary fiction and Portuguese literature.
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."
