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Baltasar and Blimunda (Memorial do Convento)
Baltasar and Blimunda - Memorial do Convento
Author: Giovanni Pontiero, Jose Saramago
Saramago has blended fact and fiction in much the same way as Marquez and others use magical realism, to create an elegantly written, surrealistic reflection on life in 18th century Portugal. It is a time of astonishing excessautos-da-fe, the Inquisition, an outbreak of the plague, colonialismand the two central characters, Baltasar, a soldier j...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780156005203
ISBN-10: 0156005204
Publication Date: 11/5/1998
Pages: 343
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3.7 stars, based on 17 ratings
Publisher: Harvest Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Nobel Prize Winning novel. so it has an interesting writing style, and lovely language, not so heavy on an actual forward moving story.
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A tough read, but worth it. Saramago is an artist. Also recommended by the same author: All the Names.
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This one will work your brain but it\'s really excellent reading.

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  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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This is typical Saramago: beautiful, dense prose (though more lighthearted than most of his other books), with magical realism at the core. Saramago won a Nobel Prize for his body of work after one of his later novels came out, "Blindness", which I recommend much more highly than this one. This is one of his more accessible books, though, and a decent (if a bit slow-paced) read.


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