Las pequeñas memorias

José Saramago said about The Little Memories: "I am interested in knowing my relationship with that child that I was. That child that is in me, always has been and always will be. I have made memories as a child and I have felt like a child doing them; I wanted readers know where the man I am came from. With a simple and naked style, the Portuguese Nobel laureate describes in this book the facts, big and small, that never, since those tender years between the ages of four and fifteen, managed to fade into the fabric of memory. Of all of them, the most vivid will be those that accompanied the awakening of his vocation as a writer: the long hours spent at the crossroads of the rivers that bathed the farmland of the village, the races between the olive groves, the sunsets, the moon more luminous than he could ever see while driving the pigs to the fair with his uncle Manuel, the happiness of finishing the task entrusted to him by his grandfather under torrential rain, the magic of Lisbon's neighborhood cinemas, the contemplation of the starry sky Along with his grandmother in the twilight of his life, rooted in the land, the brooding solitude of the adolescent...