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Tale of the Unknown Island
Taschenbuch von Jose Saramago
Sprache: Englisch

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"A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear..."

Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him and what cargo it was found to be carrying the reader will discover as this short narrative unfolds. And at the end it will be clear that what night appear to be a children's fable is in fact a wry, witty Philosophical Tale that would not have displeased Voltaire or Swift.

"A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear..."

Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him and what cargo it was found to be carrying the reader will discover as this short narrative unfolds. And at the end it will be clear that what night appear to be a children's fable is in fact a wry, witty Philosophical Tale that would not have displeased Voltaire or Swift.

Über den Autor
José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of thelast hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781860466908
ISBN-10: 1860466907
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Saramago, Jose
Hersteller: Harvill Press
Maße: 202 x 129 x 7 mm
Von/Mit: Jose Saramago
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.1999
Gewicht: 0,102 kg
Artikel-ID: 106781850
Über den Autor
José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of thelast hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781860466908
ISBN-10: 1860466907
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Saramago, Jose
Hersteller: Harvill Press
Maße: 202 x 129 x 7 mm
Von/Mit: Jose Saramago
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.1999
Gewicht: 0,102 kg
Artikel-ID: 106781850
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