Baltasar and Blimunda - Saramago Jose
Baltasar and Blimunda - Saramago Jose In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. A…
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Baltasar and Blimunda - Saramago Jose
In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. A third party shares their supper that evening: Padre Bartolomeu Lourenco, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where women are burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength.
As the Crown and the Church clash, they purse his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of