MANUAL OF PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY: A NOVEL

Jos� Saramago, award-winning author of Baltasar and Blimunda, The Stone Raft and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, and incontestably the greatest Portuguese novelist since E�a de Queiros, began his career with an extraordinary little book which set the agenda for all that followed.

The last years of Salazar's dictatorship provide a backdrop for The Manual of Painting and Calligraphy. The story is told by H, a second-rate artist commissioned by a wealthy client to paint a family portrait. As he works, he reflects on his struggleto survive in a bourgeois world obsessed with status and affluence. His portrait focuses animosity, his sitters are left uncomfortably exposed. The novel explores wider issues: the functions of art and literature; the critic's role; and, in H's tour of Italian galleries, a meditation on the influences shaping western culture. Back in Portugal, H is embroiled in political fear and mistrust when a friend is arrested by the secret police. He falls in love, too, and by the end of the
story defines his objectives and achieves an inner freedom. This coincides with the Portuguese Revolution of 1974 and Salazar's overthrow.

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