Overview
Tras la publicación de su novela inédita, La viuda, Saramago en sus palabras y fotografías: el mejor reconocimiento al premio Nobel en su centenario.
«A veces digo que yo no invento nada, que lo que hago es enseñar, como quien va por un camino, encuentra una piedra y la levanta para ver qué hay debajo... Eso es lo que yo hago. No existe premeditación ni una actitud intelectual previa. Digamos que ésa es mi manera de entender el mundo».
En Saramago. Sus nombres están recogidas más de doscientas claves del universo creador del premio Nobel portugués. Concebido como un libro que celebra al autor en el centenario de su nacimiento, en él la palabra y la imagen se combinan, se acompañan, se despliegan en múltiples sentidos. La voz que guía por sus páginas es la del propio escritor, que enseña y comenta lugares, personas, lecturas, temas y personajes de sus obras. Todos forjaron su identidad. Todos le convirtieron en lo que sigue siendo hoy: uno de los escritores contemporáneos más queridos y valorados a través su vida, dedicada a la literatura y a desentrañar la esencia del ser humano.
«Una fotobiografía de José Saramago es, necesariamente, también un retrato de la historia universal del último siglo, de los momentos, autores, corrientes de pensamiento y debates que aún nos conforman, tanto a los que hemos sido sus contemporáneos como a aquellos que le suceden. Es una publicación que adquiere un simbolismo particular en el momento en que se celebra el centenario del nacimiento de José Saramago, o que se reviste de un valor atemporal». —De la presentación de António Gutérres
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
2022: THE SARAMAGO YEAR
After releasing his unpublished novel, The Widow, Saramago in His Own Words, and photographs, this is the best recognition for the Nobel Prize Winner in his centennial.
“I sometimes say I don’t invent anything, that all I do is show, like someone on a road, finds a stone and picks it up to look at what’s underneath... That is what I do. There is no premeditation, no previous intellectual approach. Let’s just say this is my way of understanding the world.”
In Saramago. His Names we find over two hundred clues to the creative universe of this Portuguese Nobel Prize winner. Conceived as a book to celebrate the author in the hundredth anniversary of his birth, words and images come together, get attached, and unfold in multiple ways. The voice that guides us through these pages is the author’s, showing and commenting on places, people, reads, subjects, and characters in his work. They all forged his identity. They all turned him into what he is still today—one of the most appreciated contemporary writers, beloved throughout his life, a life dedicated to literature and to disentangle the essence of being human.
“A photobiography of José Saramago is necessarily a portrait of the history of the world in the past century, of the moments, authors, trends of thought, and debates that shape us still, those of us who have been his contemporaries and those who came after him. This edition regains a particular symbolism now, when we celebrate José Saramago’s centennial, or takes on a timeless value.”
—From António Guterres’ presentation.
This book title, Saramago. Sus nombres: Un álbum biográfico / Saramago. His Names, ISBN: 9788420428062, by Fundación José Saramago, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (June 21, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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