Manual of Painting and Calligraphy was Jose Saramago's first novel. Written eight years before the critically acclaimed Baltasar and Blimunda, it is a story of self-discovery set against the background of the last years of Salazar's dictatorship. A struggling young artist, commissioned to paint a portrait of an influential industrialist, learns in the process about himself and the world around him. The brilliant juxtaposition of a passionate love story and the crisis of a nation foreshadows all of Saramago's major works. A must-have for any devotee of the great Portuguese Nobel laureate, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy is now available in the United States.
- ISBN10 0547640242
- ISBN13 9780547640242
- Publish Date 1 May 2012 (first published 24 March 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Mariner Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 259
- Language English