Las Pequeñas Memorias / Memories from My Youth (Paperback)

from HadriantheBlind

A little collection of thoughts and memories. Told with a wry warming humor, grandfatherly. It'll easily be overlooked by those who aren't already fans of Saramago, which is a shame. You can see the seeds of some of his novels in his life. Wandering thoughts on memory.

from Michael.Rimmer

Small memories because they are of his childhood and adolescence, and because they are not momentous, other than in a personal way. However, Saramago uses these small memories to reflect (however briefly) upon the nature of memory and subjective reality, and of how seemingly trivial incidents in ...

from kidzdoc

Small Memories is a newly translated collection of random and mildly interesting childhood memories by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. There are some scattered gems, particularly the story of how Saramago mistakenly acquired his surname from a drunken clerk, who carelessly wrot...

from victorianist

Saramago takes us through the dearest memories of his childhood growing up in the beautiful village of Azinhaga in Portugal. It was this child that grew into one of the world's greatest and respected writers. Jose Saramago, I miss you.

from victorianist

Saramago takes us through the dearest memories of his childhood growing up in the beautiful village of Azinhaga in Portugal. It was this child that grew into one of the world's greatest and respected writers. Jose Saramago, I miss you.