by José Saramago · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420400617
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«Viaje a Portugal» is the travel book by José Saramago, published by Alfaguara in paperback (525 pages, in Spanish).
José Saramago travels through Portugal with an attentive and personal eye, describing cities, towns and landscapes. The journey becomes a tour through the country's history, culture and memory, and a reflection on Portuguese identity and on the very meaning of travel.
The cover includes a mention of the Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to José Saramago in 1998.
Suitable for readers of travel literature and for those who want to discover José Saramago in a more personal register.
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."
