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Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

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From the Nobel Prize winning author-a novel that takes us into the last days of Salazar's dictatorship when a second-rate artist is commissioned by a wealthy client to paint a portrait and the political and intellectual struggles that ensue.

Manual of Painting and Calligraphy was José Saramago's first novel. Written eight years before the critically acclaimed Baltasar and Blimunda, it is a story of self-discovery set against the background of the last years of Salazar's dictatorship. A struggling young artist, commissioned to paint a portrait of an influential industrialist, learns in the process about himself and the world around him. The brilliant juxtaposition of a passionate love story and the crisis of a nation foreshadows all of Saramago's major works. A must-have for any devotee of the great Portuguese Nobel laureate, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy is now available in the United States.

"Taut and compelling." - Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Beautifully realized, heartbreakingly honest." - Providence Journal-Bulletin

"Almost impossible to put down." - Austin American-Statesman

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
01. Mai 2012
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
256
Autor/Autorin
José Saramago
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
259 g
Größe (L/B/H)
206/137/18 mm
ISBN
9780547640228

Portrait

José Saramago

JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922– 2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar  and Blimunda, and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Pressestimmen

"For a first novel, though, this work displays a masterly grasp of wordplay and other literary devices, and as the translator points out, it can also serve as a map to the political and social themes of Saramago's future novels."
--"Library Journal"

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