Cuadernos de Lanzarote, 2

The awareness of approaching old age was one of the reasons that led Saramago to write the Notebooks of Lanzarote. The writer felt the need to "take smaller, shorter steps," and these, he said, could only appear in a newspaper. In these pages, written between 1996 and 1997, everything fits: everyday incidents, places visited, professional commitments, loved ones, joys and sorrows, but also memories, readings, philosophical and literary reflections, political opinions, letters, confessions...