Memories of the monastery

Jose of Saramago is one of the largest writers of modern Portugal, Nobel Laureate in 1998, the author of the scandalously famous “Gospel of Jesus”. “Memories of the Monastery” is customary to compare with the Umberto Eco, which was released at the same time, the “Name of Rosa”, Roman Saramago was also translated into dozens of languages ​​and became the international bestseller. So, in the ancient Portuguese city of Mafra, where Juan fifth gave the royal command to build a monastery, the epic love story of Baltazar seven suns and the blimunds of seven moon unfolds. Having lost his hand in the war, Baltazar acquired two prostheses, with a hook and with a saber. He can fight off the robbers, he can help at a construction site, or he can - to assemble a trumpet of Passarol, similar to a bird for Jesuit Bartolomeo Di Gusman. And as the Passarola strives upside down, they strive up and the walls of the monastery being built in the Mafre ... Federico Fellini said that this is one of the most interesting novels that he had to read, and planned the film adaptation of “Memories ...” - alas, who failed. And based on the novel at the La Scala Milan Theater, the opera Baltazar and Blimund was delivered