Books in brief

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: July 3, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

- Manual of Painting and Calligraphy by Jose Saramago, trs Giovanni Pontiero, Carcanet pounds 14.95. The European Art Novel is as daunting a prospect as the European Art Movie, but this Portuguese academic's 1977 debut is, once you've accustomed yourself to its terrain, surprisingly easy to negotiate. From its vaguely Kafka-esque opening, with H, the narrator, commissioned to paint a portrait of S, a shadowy government figure, it develops into an intelligent meditation on fatuity and lack of purpose. Slowly, out of the murk of H's self-concern, other figures appear: faint at first, gradually ...

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