by José Saramago · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420427898
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«Viaje a Portugal» is José Saramago's travel narrative, published by Alfaguara in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
José Saramago travels through Portugal from north to south, from Trás-os-Montes to the Algarve, passing through Lisbon and the Alentejo, noting the impressions of a traveler attentive to the landscape, architecture and people of the country. More than a guide, the book is a reflection on Portuguese identity and the memory of its places, written with a sensibility attentive to detail.
Work originally published as «Viagem a Portugal» in 1981. José Saramago received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
Ideal for travelers interested in Portugal and for readers who want to discover Saramago's literary gaze on his country.
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."
