num_pages: 322
description: By the author of Baltasar and Blimunda. 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 to paint a family portrait. As he works, he reflects on his struggles to survive in a bourgeois world.
language: English
title: Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
titlecomplete: Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
genres: Classics, Portuguese Literature, Philosophy, Fiction, Nobel Prize, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Portugal, Art
ratings_count: 1526
publisher: Carcanet