El viaje del elefante

In the mid-16th century, King John III offered his cousin, Archduke Maximilian of Austria, an Asian elephant. This novel tells the epic journey of that elephant named Solomon who had to travel through Europe due to real whims and absurd strategies. The elephant's journey is not a historical book, it is a combination of real and invented facts that makes us feel reality and fiction as an indissoluble unit, as something typical of great literature. A reflection on the meaning of human life, with its efforts, efforts and ambitions, with its irremissible end, in which humor and irony, marks of the implacable lucidity of the author, join the compassion with which José Saramago Look at human frailties.