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Tale of the Unknown Island
Jose Saramago
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Description for Tale of the Unknown Island
Paperback. A man knocked on the King's door to ask for a boat. Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him the reader will discover as this short narrative unfolds. Illustrator(s): Sis, Peter. Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Num Pages: 48 pages, 4 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 108.
"A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear..."
Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him and what cargo it was found to be carrying the reader will discover as this short narrative unfolds. And at the end it will be clear that what night appear to be a children's fable is in fact a wry, witty Philosophical Tale that would not have displeased Voltaire or Swift.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
42
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860466908
SKU
V9781860466908
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Ref
99-40
About Jose Saramago
José Saramago (Author) 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.
Reviews for Tale of the Unknown Island
Saramago writes possibly the most beautiful but certainly the most precise and differentiated Portuguese prose of our time
Walter Haubrich
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Saramago is a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to life
John Updike No candidate for a Nobel Prize has a better claim to lasting recognition than this novelist
Edmund White He was the equal of Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile - he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy
Harold Bloom Saramago is a writer of formidable talent and extraordinary imagination
La Repubblica
Walter Haubrich
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Saramago is a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to life
John Updike No candidate for a Nobel Prize has a better claim to lasting recognition than this novelist
Edmund White He was the equal of Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile - he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy
Harold Bloom Saramago is a writer of formidable talent and extraordinary imagination
La Repubblica