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THE ELEPHANT’S JOURNEY by Jose Saramago
Saramago can look intimidating on the page, with his grey blocks of unbroken text and almost total avoidance of capital letters. But once you get used to his peculiarities (it takes only a few pages), you find a congenial companion with warmly humane ideas wittily expressed. THE ELEPHANT’S JOURNEY is a relatively minor book, a mere tale of 200 pages, but I can think of no better introduction to the Nobel laureate’s work. But as the first book published in translation since the writer’s death in June 2010 (there is one novel, CAIN, still to come), one might equally call it the genial farewell of a great master.
October 13, 2010
Tags: Around-the-World, Literary Posted in: Nobel Prize for Literature, Translated, World Literature 
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