One of his main novels chronicles the efforts of a handicapped war veteran and his lover to flee the Inquisition using a flying machine powered by human will.
One of his main novels chronicles the efforts of a handicapped war veteran and his lover to flee the Inquisition using a flying machine powered by human will. Another novel, also set during the Inquisition, tells of King Juan V's promise to build a convent if his wife can conceive, and is titled Memorial del Convento. Although he had had several volumes of poems published, he did not write his first novel, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy, until he was in his fifties. In The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, he juxtaposes the story of a poet-physician's life under the dictator Salazar with meditations on human nature. For 10 points, identify this Portuguese author of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and The Stone Raft.
One of his main novels chronicles the efforts of a handicapped war veteran and his lover to flee the Inquisition using a flying machine powered by human will.
Jose {Saramago}