Title: The flight of human wills
Product review: The enormous monastery of Mafra is the main caracter of this great book. Trough beautifull metaphors and a very adequate baroque style, Saramago tell us about the people who made the monastery, especially Baltazar and Blimunda. The strange couple live a life lasting, simple love, that contrasts with the cold, indifferent and political relantionships of royalty. The arrogant aristocracy in a healthy land, enough arrogant to pay it's debts with human lives is ironically described together with the cynical religiousness and the misery. It's one of the best books ever writen in portuguese language. Even it's not a easy book (baroque style, lots of descriptions, dificult metaphors)worth every word of it.
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