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Baltasar and Blimunda
work by Saramago
Also known as: “Memorial do convento”
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discussed in biography
- In José Saramago
Baltasar and Blimunda). With 18th-century Portugal (during the Inquisition) as a backdrop, it chronicles the efforts of a handicapped war veteran and his lover to flee their situation by using a flying machine powered by human will. Saramago alternates this allegorical fantasy with grimly realistic…
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Portuguese literature
- In Portuguese literature: After 1974
Baltasar and Blimunda), told in the form of an epic tale, the story of the building of a magnificent convent is also an allegory of human suffering throughout history. His novel O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis (1984; The Year of the Death of…
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