by José Saramago · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806156091
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«Storia dell'assedio di Lisbona» is the historical novel by José Saramago, published by Einaudi in 2000 in paperback (338 pages, in Italian).
Raimundo Silva, a proofreader, introduces a «no» into a history book: the crusaders did not help the Portuguese in the conquest of Lisbon in 1147. His gesture changes official history and his life, as he relates to Maria Sara and writes his own version. The novel interweaves that revision with voices from the twelfth century, such as Mogueira and Ouroana.
Originally published in 1989 as «História do Cerco de Lisboa»; Italian translation by Rita Desti. Saramago received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
Suitable for readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, with an interest in the construction of memory and the power of writing.
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."
