Written shortly before he died, one is left with the feeling that SaramagoвЂ™s amazing writing talents were starting to fade. The longest I recorded before I stopped counting was 12 pages. Saramago felt there was material for a story there and set out to investigate a bit about the historical details of this long journey. There were rarely two paragraphs on the same page.

There was no narrative arc that I could detect, unless you count the climb upwards through the Alps. It was supposed to be a charming little novel. This has the clever effect eo slowing the reader down, almost as a caesura in verse, making one concentrate more intently on how the language is deployed. However, Saramago does have a good story to tell here and he tells it well. It is worth paying a bit more for the audio version than struggling through the written, never ending sentences. The major characters are the elephant Solomon and his mahour Subhro. Solomon is coerced to kneel by the doors of the giaje, which puts the fear of God into the populace, which also kneels. Unless some lucky scholar hits paydirt, IвЂ™m afraid weвЂ™ll never know. Saramago wrote this book quite late in his life and I wondered if he had doubts ell regrets about what he had achieved in his writing career or if he worried about the security of his position as the leading Portuguese writer of the twentieth century. The animal deel thus shown a certain respect and the limitations of the voice are clearly indicated: I say to you, it is better to be a novelist, a fiction writer, a liar. I loved the elephant, but even for him, it was no heroвЂ™s journey though thankfully the denouement wasnвЂ™t like slaughter for elephants. Open Preview See a Problem? O que eu gostei deste livro: Saramago is very good at inventing keys, and with them, he opens a succession of doors in the narrative I imagine him blithely doing the same throughout his life. When SaramagoвЂ™s narrative reaches the Brenner pass, he begins to discuss the difficulties of descriptive writing, then says: Como ponto alto elejo a amizade cornaca-elefante. Lisbon is a great big freeway Put a hundred down saramaho a pachyderm, Turn your back on your accounting firm And you might find yourself on the way To Vienna, by barge, from Innsbruck. Or, somewhat more tediously, scroll through the list of 86 editions to вЂ¦more It is saramwgo Goodreads. You start off fascinated, and you remember SaramagoвЂ™s wry humor and wandering sentences. A frase вЂњO elefante caga, pois cagaвЂќ, nunca surge no livro. Yet there was no apparent need for this longevity. Fortunately, thanks to the inexhaustible generosity of the imagination, we erase faults, fill in lacunae as best we can, forge passages through blind alleys that will remain stubbornly blind, and invent keys to doors that have never had locks. Then you start to get bored and doze off for about pages in the middle, and then you вЂwake upвЂ™ again, start paying attention, and read the fantastic ending, and wonder how you got there in the first place. The reason this is getting two stars is that frankly it was a bit boring. The elephantвЂ™s journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary people. It is a novelistвЂ™s voice embellishing on historical fact: Riding through Portugal, and then across Spain, boarding a ship to cross the Mediterranean, then onwards through Northern Italy, the Alps, Austria, all while perched on top of an elephant must have seemed like a royal position in those days.

A foundation with his name was established in its main aims are cultural promotion, particularly of Portuguese literature and authors. Quite an exhausting read because of its style but very funny at times, definitely quirky, and heavens am I really using this word, sweet. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Buy El Viaje Del Elefante by Jose Saramago from AmazonвЂ™s Fiction Books Store. A mediados del siglo XVI el rey Juan III ofrece a. El viaje del elefante (Spanish Edition) on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Una aventura Г©pica llena de humanidad, humor y sabidurГa. JosГ© Saramago narra el insГіlito viaje del elefante SalomГіn a travГ©s de la Europa del siglo XVI.

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