The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Author: Saramago, José
ISBN: 9781860467226
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2002
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 198mm x 131mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention
What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love?
When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon. Fearing censure he is met instead with admiration- Dr Maria Sara, his voluptuous new editor, encourages him to pen his own alternative history. As his retelling draws on all his imaginative powers, Silva finds - to his nervous delight - that if the facts of the past can be rewritten as a romance then so can the details of his own dusty bachelor present.
ISBN: 9781860467226
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2002
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 198mm x 131mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention
What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love?
When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon. Fearing censure he is met instead with admiration- Dr Maria Sara, his voluptuous new editor, encourages him to pen his own alternative history. As his retelling draws on all his imaginative powers, Silva finds - to his nervous delight - that if the facts of the past can be rewritten as a romance then so can the details of his own dusty bachelor present.
