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Baltasar and Blimunda (Portuguese: Memorial do Convento, 1982) is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago. It is an 18th-century love story intertwined with the construction of the Convent of Mafra, now one of Portugal's chief tourist attractions, as a background.
- José Saramago
- 1982
1. Jan. 2001 · 3.93. 22,996 ratings1,278 reviews. 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.
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BALTASAR AND BLIMUNDA By Jose Saramago. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. 336 pp. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $17.95. THE most vigorous writing of recent years has come not from the...
José Saramago: Memorial do convento (Baltasar and Blimunda) Saramago’s first novel translated into English will use a theme that we will find in his later novels, namely that physical sight is a metaphor for spiritual insight. The eponymous Blimunda takes a piece of bread to bed with her and eats it before opening her eyes in the morning. If ...
8. Okt. 2022 · Analysis of José Saramago’s Baltasar and Blimunda. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on October 8, 2022. The novel Baltasar and Blimunda, written in 1984, advanced José Saramago (1922–2010) from national popularity to international recognition. The historical novel was translated from the Portuguese into English by Giovanni Pontiero in 1986.
Harvill Press, 2001 - Fiction - 343 pages. 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...
16. Okt. 1998 · Hailed by USA Today as “an unexpected gem,” Baltasar and Blimunda is a captivating literary tour de force, full of magic and adventure, exquisite historical detail, and the power of both...
