Baltasar and Blimunda

Baltasar and Blimunda
Author(s)	José Saramago
Original title	Memorial do Convento
Translator	Giovanni Pontiero
Country	Portugal
Language	Portuguese
Publication date	1982
Published in English	1987
ISBN	978-1-86046-901-5
OCLC Number	47037980
Followed by	The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Baltasar and Blimunda (Portuguese: Memorial do Convento, 1982) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago.

It is a love story set in the 18th century with the construction of the Convent of Mafra, now one of Portugal's chief tourist attractions, as a background. Two young lovers interact naturally with historical characters including the composer and harpsichordist Domenico Scarlatti and the priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão, recognized today as an aviation pioneer, all in the shadow of the Inquisition. The lovers are always at center stage wrapped in Saramago's language, which ranges from short simple sentences to surrealistic, unpunctuated paragraphs that help to intensify both the action and the setting.

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