by Jose Saramago · Luso Brazilian Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9789722100472
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«Viagem a Portugal» is José Saramago's travel book in hardcover (271 pages).
Saramago avoids the pattern of tourist guides and proposes a personal journey through Portugal, from the northern regions to the Algarve, pausing at landscapes, villages and people. The text combines observation of the terrain, history and popular culture, and shows a country far from clichés.
It corresponds to the 17th edition, published in 1998, with photographs by Maurício Abreu; the ISBN-13 is 9789722100472.
For readers of travel literature and for those who want to discover Portugal through Saramago's prose.
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."
