In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant’s journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary people. Out...
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Qué diablo de Dios es éste que, para enaltecer a Abel, desprecia a Caín. Si en El Evangelio según Jesucristo José Saramago nos dio su visión del Nuevo Testamento, en Caín regresa a los primeros libros de la Biblia....
Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death...
When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-first by surreal events and then by love. “A splendidly imagined epic voyage...a fabulous...
Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband Marçal in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, an imposing complex of shops, apartments, and offices to which Cipriano delivers his pots and jugs every...
Some years ago a reliable friend told me I should read José Saramago's Blindness. Faced with pages of run-on sentences and unparagraphed dialogue without quotation marks, I soon quit, snarling about literary affectations. Later I tried again,...
Tertuliano Máximo Afonso é professor de História. Ao visionar um filme banal que um colega de matemática lhe recomendara descobre que um dos actores é um seu sósia. O argumento do livro é a sua demanda, e depois...
Słowo nie wstawione przez redaktora w miejscu, gdzie nie umieścił go autor HISTORII OBLĘŻENIA LIZBONY, nie ma żadnego wpływu na dzieje miasta i jego mieszkańców, nie odwróci biegu historii, może...
“Todos los nombres” es la historia de amor más intensa de la literatura portuguesa de todos los tiempos.” Eduardo Loureno
“Todos los nombres” es el relato de aventuras de un José “sin nombre”, aunque el suyo sea el...
Pintor mediocre, dolorosamente consciente de sus limitaciones, H. recurre a las páginas de un diario como medio para comprender sus debilidades estéticas y para comprenderse a sí mismo, cuando acepta el encargo de retratar a S.,...