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Book Review - literary passport
Vera Afonso
Created on November 19, 2023
This is the book review for our Etwinning project called "European Literary Passport".
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The Tale of the Unknown island
Book review
Summary
Author
Characters
Quotes
Theme
Curiosities
Never stop dreaming! A metaphor for human quest.
The story of two dreamers.
An invitation to each one of us to take control of our life and dream our own dreams.
Theme(s)
The story of a man with a strong will.
The story of a determined woman that decides to change her life.
"The king’s philosopher, when he had nothing to do, would come and sit beside me and watch me darning the pages’ socks, and sometimes he would start philosophizing, he used to say that each man is an island, but since that had nothing to do with me, being a woman, I paid no attention to him, what do you think, That you have to leave the island to see the island, that we can’t see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves."
"The king’s house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting at the door for favours..."
Author
José SaramagoProfile
He was born in 1922 in Azinhaga, Portugal and he died in 2010. He won the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1998. He wrote a long list of books and he is best known for the following titles: Blindness; All the Names; The Stone Raft; The Cave, The Double, etc. "The Tale of the Unknown Island" was written in 1997.
Summary This is the story of a man who wants to sail the world in order to try to find the unknown island. He visits the King and asks for a boat to try to find an island that nobody has found yet. He strongly believes that it exists!
This tale is written with a simple yet elegant language. "The Tale of the Unknown Island" lacks punctuation and conventional paragraph breaks. As in all his other major novels, Saramago uses only commas and full strops. “Punctuation is like traffic signs, too much of it distracts you from the road on which you travel”, he once said.
Curiosities
Characters
The Man (who asks for a boat) Persistent, confident and brave
The Cleaning Woman Determined and courageous
The King fearful and doubtful
The Harbour master Cautious