Manual of painting and calligraphy : a novel
Saramago, José1993
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The last years of stifling Salazar's dictatorship provide a backdrop for this novel. The story is told by H., a second-rate artist struggling to survive in a bourgeois world obsessed with affluence. It also explores wider issues, including the functions of art and literature and the critic's role.
Main title:
Manual of painting and calligraphy : a novel / José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
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Imprint:
Manchester : Carcanet, 1994.
Collation:
ix, 223p.
ISBN:
9781857540437
Dewey class:
869.342Fiction
Language:
EnglishPortuguese
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BRN:
1820237
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