José Saramago
Paperback | Pages: 346 pages Rating: 3.92 | 14860 Users | 734 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Baltasar and Blimunda |
| ISBN: | 0156005204 (ISBN13: 9780156005203) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Baltasar, Blimunda |
| Setting: | Portugal |
| Literary Awards: | Prémio Literário Município de Lisboa |
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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. When King and Church exercise absolute power what happens to the dreams of ordinary people? In early eighteenth century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost a hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with strange visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother is condemned and sent into exile, the two are bound body and soul by a love of unassailable strength. A third party shares their supper that evening: Padre Bartolemeu Lourenço, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. As the inquisition rages and royalty and religion clash, they pursue his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight.Itemize Based On Books Baltasar and Blimunda
| Title | : | Baltasar and Blimunda |
| Author | : | José Saramago |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 346 pages |
| Published | : | October 16th 1998 by Mariner Books (first published 1982) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. European Literature. Portuguese Literature. Cultural. Portugal |
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Ratings: 3.92 From 14860 Users | 734 ReviewsArticle Based On Books Baltasar and Blimunda
I have always thought that one must be full of a creative madness to write the way it is composed this novel. It is a sheer original, brilliant and spellbound novel. I was tightly and irrevocably encapsulated by the read from page one. And for sure it didnt have anything to do with the full moon phenomenon which was happening just this very last weekendby the time I actually finished it.What a better start of the novel than by writing of this early 18th century Lisbon royal atmosphere:≪ DomLike many other people, I thought I would absolutely loathe this book. Everything about it seemed dull to me: the story, the characters, the writing itself. And, after all, I had never been a big fan of Saramago myself. But this book soon became one of the best works I've ever read in my entire life. It wasn't dull - it was magical. I can't think of any part of this book that bored me. It is full of passion, humour, criticism, creativity. The characters are simply perfect. The story is beyond
My 5th Saramago book and I have always been bewildered as ever. Every book by him seems to be a totally different idea. He seems to have never rewritten himself. I first started with his Blindness (3 stars) about people going blind and the world turning post-apocalyptic and this was followed by his 1001 book, The Double (4 stars) that reminded me of an instance when I myself saw a man one morning who looked like exactly like me. Then the following year, 2011, I read his The Gospel According to
020219 from ???: there is often a description of an artistic project, even if it is not quite art, in Saramagos work: in this case it is the cathedral, not as work of architecture but as social creation. a general reminder to tourists who walk about exclaiming how beautiful: there are lives there, lives we might otherwise not remark, and there is sorrow as well as joy in every persons life as there is love and loss and suffering. this is the first saramago i had read (trade ppbk) from before his
With some books the chemistry just doesn't work and this is one of them. From page 1 the exuberant, baroque, antiquated language is flowing out of the book: impossible long sentences, with lots of appositions and neverending descriptions; it's all too artificial for me. The setting, Portugal in the beginning of the 18th century, and the love story that is at the center of this book, are quite interesting. But nevertheless, it just isn't convincing to me. Saramago, in this book, takes on a lot of
(5.0+) Before I explain my feelings about Saramago's Baltasar and Blimunda, let me share a couple visuals from the late 17th & 18th Century that are highlighted within the text:The passarola of Father Bartholomeu de GusmaoAn auto de fe of the Portugeuse InquisitionSaramago's masterpiece.343 pages. Perhaps, the longest 343 pages I've ever tried to read, but very fulfilling in the end; a 5 star like no other that I've rated, 'Baltasar and Blimunda' is historical fiction at its base, but a
(المراجعة باللغة العربية إلى أسفل)Each novel by Jose Saramago is a masterpiece, including this historical tale from 18th century Portugal, with tells of two actual building projects: the story of the building of Mafra palace and convent(hence the original title: Memorial do Convento); the king's vanity and absolute power; the hundreds of men and women involved in this huge - and useless - project; the lives lost; the persons maimed; the families disrupted; all for a promise made by a king to the
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