José Saramago / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
| Other author | Bloom, Harold. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, ©2005. |
| Description | xviii, 160 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Series | Bloom'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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2004024078 |
| ISBN | 0791081338 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780791081334 (alk. paper) |