Narrativa (Punto de Lectura): La Balsa de Piedra (Paperback)

from pgmcc

[The Stone Raft] by José Saramago, translated into English from Portugese by Giovanni Pontiero, is entertaining, insightful and, at times, intense. The translator's note informs the reader that Saramago limits his punctuation to full stops and commas. This appears peculiar at first but it works w...

from bodachliath

This early novel can be seen as the precursor or model for Saramago's later surreal modern parables Blindness, Seeing, and Death at Intervals, all of which explore the consequences of changing one of the natural laws society takes for granted. It has a similar mixture of philosophy, humour and th...

from mattviews

Like BLINDNESS, Jose Saramago nimbly spins off another what-if tale in THE STONE RAFT with a tinge of a political overtone between his native country and Europe. The Iberian peninsula simply breaks free from the European continent: drifting away at an awestruck speed of 750 kilometers a day, spli...

from bodachliath

This early novel can be seen as the precursor or model for Saramago's later surreal modern parables Blindness, Seeing, and Death at Intervals, all of which explore the consequences of changing one of the natural laws society takes for granted. It has a similar mixture of philosophy, humour and th...

from lriley

What to make of a novel where the unexplained remains a riddle but continues on its own course anyway. The Stone Raft has the Iberian Peninsula (or Spain and Portugal) breaking away from the rest of the European continent and floating out to sea. The characters of Joaquim Sassa, Jose Anaico (both...