num_pages: 340
description: The last years of Salazar's dictatorship provide a backdrop for this novel. The story is told by H., a second-rate artist commissioned by a wealthy client, S., to paint a family portrait. As he works, he reflects on his struggles to survive in a bourgeois world. The struggles and compromises of the common man, the ethics of the intellectual, and the love of man are the ingredients that comprise this novel by Josi Saramago.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Manual De Pintura Y Caligrafía
titlecomplete: Manual De Pintura Y Caligrafía
genres: Fiction, Philosophy, Literature, Classics, Novels, Portugal, Nobel Prize, Art, 20th Century, Portuguese Literature
ratings_count: 1526
publisher: Suma de Letras