- Fiction, historical, general, Portugal, fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Portuguese fiction
Lisbon circa 1935 comes to life in this story of a doctor who forsakes medicine to recite poetry in the streets, the women in his life, and the ghost who occasionally accompanies him.
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- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
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- Author
- José Saramago
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 358
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780151997350
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José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ComSE GColCa (Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ðɨ ˈso(w).zɐ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and 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. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago)
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