Balthasar and Blimunda

Informationen zum Autor José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda . A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010. Klappentext In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where women are burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength. A third party shares their supper that evening: Padre Bartolomeu Lourenco, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. As the Crown and the Church clash, they purse his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight. Zusammenfassung In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where women are burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jose Saramago, José Saramago
• Con la collaborazione di: Giovanni Pontiero (Traduzione)
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.09.2001
• EAN: 9781860469015
• ISBN: 978-1-86046-901-5
• Pagine: 352
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Portugiesische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Portugal, Historical romance, FICTION / Magical Realism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Magical Realism, C 1700 To C 1800