El Evangelio Segun Jesucristo - Softcover

Saramago, José

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8422642492 ISBN 13: 9788422642497

Publisher: Círculo de Lectores., 1992

Synopsis

425pp , No. 34629 , About the author :: José de Sousa Saramago ( Azinhaga , Santarém , Portugal, November 16, 1922 - Tias , Lanzarote, Spain , June 18, 2010 ) was a writer , novelist, poet, journalist and playwright Portuguese. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy said his ability to " re understandable a fleeting reality , with parables sustained by imagination , compassion and irony " ... His first major novel was Levantado do chão (1980 ) , a fresh and vivid picture of the conditions life Lavre workers in the province of Alentejo. With this book Saramago manages to find his own voice, that unmistakable , clear and almost poetic style that sets it apart. In the following years , Saramago published almost nonstop : Memorial do convento ( 1982 ) , where it has the harshest living conditions of ordinary people in the dark medieval world , in times of war, famine and superstitions. This book was adapted as an opera by Azio Corghi , and premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, with the title of Blimunda , the unforgettable female character in the novel. Corghi also adapted his play In Nomine Dei , which under the name Divara was released in Munster. Azio Corghi is also the music of the cantata The Death of Lazarus, on texts of Memorial do Convento , The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and In Nomine Dei. It was first performed in the church of San Marco , Milan. In 1984 Saramago publishes The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis and 1986 A raft of pedra ( The Stone Raft ) , which account what would happen if the Iberian Peninsula come loose from the European continent. That year, when he was 63 , he met his future wife until the end of his days, the Spanish journalist Pilar del Rio , a native of Castril, Granada born in 1950 , who eventually becomes his official translator in Castilian ..

About this edition

• Publisher: Círculo de Lectores.
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 8422642492
• ISBN 13: 9788422642497
• Binding: Paperback