José Saramago / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Other author Bloom, Harold.
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, ©2005.
Descriptionxviii, 160 pages ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesBloom's modern critical views
Bloom's modern critical views. ^A559189
Contents View of eighteenth-century Portugal : Jose Saramago's Memorial do convento (Baltsar and Blimunda) / Richard A. Preto-Rodas -- Symbolism and synchronicity : Jose Saramago's Jangada de pedra (The stone raft) / Mary L. Daniel -- The dialectics of history in two dramas of Jose Saramago / Gene Steven Forrest -- Jose Saramago and O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis (The year of the death of Ricardo Reis) : the making of a masterpiece / Giovanni Pontiero -- Ascent and consent : hierarchy and popular emancipation in the novels of Jose Saramago / David Frier -- The one with the beard is God, the other is the devil / Harold Bloom -- 'Once but no longer the prow of Europe' : national identity and Portuguese destiny in Jose Saramago's The stone raft / Mark J.L. Sabine -- Jose Saramago "revises," or, out of Africa and into cyber-history / Ronald W. Sousa -- Invitation to the voyage / Paulo de Medeiros -- Death, politics, vision, and fiction in Plato's cave (after Saramago) / Andrew Laird.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004024078
ISBN0791081338 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780791081334 (alk. paper)