Manual de Pintura y Caligrafia (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Saramago, Jose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 950511494X ISBN 13: 9789505114948

Publisher: Alfaguara, 1999

Synopsis

The last years of Salazar's dictatorship provide a backdrop for this novel. The story is told by H., a second-rate artist commissioned by a wealthy client, S., to paint a family portrait. As he works, he reflects on his struggles to survive in a bourgeois world. The struggles and compromises of the common man, the ethics of the intellectual, and the love of man are the ingredients that comprise this novel by José Saramago.

Description in Spanish: 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., administrador de una compañía. El trabajo le situará no tanto en la médula de la crisis moral del artista como en la raíz de todo acto de creación estética.

About this title

About the Author:

Jose Saramago (b. Azinhaga, Portugal, 1922) is the best-known contemporary Portuguese author. He has received many awards, including the Premio Camoes (equivalent to the Premio Cervantes for Portuguese) and the 1998 Nobel Prize. Saramago has written poetry, essays, chronicles, theater, and novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfaguara
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 950511494X
• ISBN 13: 9789505114948
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1