The last years of stifling Salazar's dictatorship provide a backdrop for this novel. The story is told by H., a second-rate artist struggling to survive in a bourgeois world obsessed with affluence. It also explores wider issues, including the functions of art and literature and the critic's role.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Portugese
Original Language: Portugese
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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 available in the United States for the first time.
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.
Giovanni Pontiero translated all of Saramago’s novels until his death in 1997, just after finishing his translation of Blindness.
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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.
Giovanni Pontiero translated all of Saramago’s novels until his death in 1997, just after finishing his translation of Blindness.
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JOSE SARAMAGO is one of the most acclaimed writers in the world today. He is the author of numerous novels, including All the Names, Blindness, and The Cave. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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An essay about the blindness of realistic representation,
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This review is from: Manual of Painting and Calligraphy: A Novel (Hardcover)
A story about a painter of portraits or a portrait of the Author in search of his own image, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy is a strategic book for anyone interested in learning more about history of art in general and about the author's criative process in particular, while enjoying a pleasant narrative.Trying to avoid the conventional act of mirroring, José Saramago - who is responsible, among others, for the overcome of literary neorealism in Portugal - criates, as the title reveals, not only a novel nor a diary, but a treatise about the blindness of realistic representation. Writing through the eyes of a painter who paints through the hands of a writer, Saramago explores the boundaries between the so-called sister arts, talking about the urge of imagination in nowadays world, and building up for himself and for his readers an interesting and instigating portrait of the artist as the author of the invisible. Ermelinda Ferreira (eferreira@openlink.com.br
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