by José Saramago · Ediciones Alfaguara · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420400570
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Manual de pintura y caligrafía is a novel by the Portuguese writer José Saramago, published in 1977. The story follows a painter who reflects on art, life, and society through his work. The novel explores themes such as creativity, perception, and the search for meaning in a complex world. With his characteristic style, Saramago offers a deep and provocative look at the human condition through the lens of art.
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."
