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Books : Baltasar and Blimunda
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List Price: $15.00Amazon.com's Price: $10.20 You Save: $4.80 (32%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 869.342
EAN: 9780156005203
ISBN: 0156005204
Label: Harvest Books
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 360
Publication Date: November 05, 1998
Publisher: Harvest Books
Studio: Harvest Books
Sales Rank: 81263
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From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a “brilliant...enchanting novel” (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
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This book is filled with absolutely enchanting prose with a very unique style. Saramago portrays an enduring love between the two main characters. There's plenty of magical realism, which keeps the book lively and fresh. The book as a whole, however, is a bit dull in places. Overall, a worthwhile read.
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So who really wrote Baltasar and Blimunda? Saramago gets all the praise and the Nobels. I come away from my reading of the tale highly suspicious. First of all, the book is told in third person omniscient. The narrator is more omniscient than Dashiell Hammett. He knows the past. He knows the present. He knows the future. He stops in the middle of his narrative, fasts forwards to an incidental character's tragic demise and then brings us back to the story without having to break his stride. Here's ... Read More
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This was my introduction to Saramago a few years back. Since, then, I have devoured his work from which I have gained insight, inspiration and a spirit of adventure. He is one of a very few finest writers in our world today. I returned to re-read this novel with an accomplished insight into his work. It has been an astounding experience! A novel of such breadth, imagination, and history unlike any I have read. The chapter in which an enormous stone is transported from the quarry to Mafra may be ... Read More
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Noted literary critic Harold Bloom calls Jose Saramago a genius (a term he reserves for extremely few living authors) and perhaps the world's greatest living novelist. For that reason and Saramago's Nobel prize, and because Amazon's editorial review referred to this book as Saramago's best-loved story, and because of the interesting back cover blurb, I thought "Baltasar and Blimunda" would make a good entry point into what I thought would be the beginning of my enjoyment of his works. I was really looking ... Read More
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Eloqunet depiction of 18th Century Portugal, however is lacking in the love story development.
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