Manual De Pintura E Caligraphia [Manual of Painting and Calligraphy].

SARAMAGO, Jose.

$975.00

Item Number: 2630

Lisboa: Moraes Editores, 1976.

First Portuguese edition and true first of this early work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed and dated Jose Saramago. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities.

The Portuguese writer Jose Saramago is the recipient of both the 1995 Camões Prize and 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the greatest living novelist" and considers him to be "a permanent part of the Western canon (Evans, 2002). Manual of Painting and Calligraphy "displays a masterly grasp of wordplay and other literary devices, and as the translator points out, it can also serve as a map to the political and social themes of Saramago's future novels" (The New York Times Book Review).