by José Saramago · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420484389
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«Memorial del convento» is the historical novel by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in paperback (472 pages, in Spanish).
Set in 18th-century Portugal, the novel interweaves King João V's promise to build the Mafra convent with the story of Baltasar, a one-handed soldier, and Blimunda, a woman who can see inside people. Their relationship crosses paths with Father Bartolomeu's project to build a flying machine.
Work originally published in Portuguese as «Memorial do convento»; the Spanish translation is by Basilio Losada. This Alfaguara edition is part of the Biblioteca Saramago collection.
For readers of historical fiction and literary narrative, especially those already following the work of 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."
