by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420484433
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«Levantado del suelo» is the historical novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows several generations of a peasant family from the Alentejo, between 1910 and 1979, in a rural Portugal marked by poverty and submission. The plot includes the uprisings and land occupations of the early 20th century and culminates in the Carnation Revolution, whose hope for change proves fleeting for the characters.
It belongs to the Biblioteca Saramago collection. The work was originally published in 1980. José Saramago received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
Aimed at readers of literary and historical fiction, particularly those who want to approach the work of José Saramago and rural Portugal.
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."
