Manual of Painting and Calligraphy: A Novel (From the Portuguese)

Manual of Painting and Calligraphy: A Novel (From the Portuguese)

by José Saramago

Publisher
Carcanet
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
1995

Overview

By the author of Baltasar and Blimunda. The last years of Salazar's dictatorship provide a backdrop for this novel. The story is told by H, a second-rate artist commissioned by a wealthy client to paint a family portrait. As he works, he reflects on his struggles to survive in a bourgeois world.

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