by José Saramago · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429756128
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In 'Journey to Portugal,' José Saramago guides us through the roads of Portugal, revealing the details of the landscape, the people, and the culture. This book is more than an itinerary; it's a deep exploration of Portuguese identity, seen through Saramago's curious eyes. The author invites us to discover Portugal and ourselves, on a journey that goes from Lisbon to Alentejo and the Algarve, to the lands of the Douro. A fascinating work that transports the reader through the pages, inviting them to repeat this journey again and again.
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."
