by José Saramago · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466369220
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«Manual de pintura y caligrafía» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
The painter H., aware of his limitations, keeps a diary to understand his relationship with art. When he agrees to paint S., an administrator, he becomes trapped in trivial relationships and decides to paint a second portrait, which leads him to question the meaning of his creation and his own life.
Novel originally published in 1977; this Spanish edition appeared in 2004 within the Punto de Lectura catalogue.
For readers of contemporary fiction and followers of the work of Nobel Prize in Literature laureate José Saramago.
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."
