The Story of the Uncharted Island. José Saramago

José Saramago tells a simple, yet mysterious, romantic and beautiful story: a strong-willed, courageous, self-confident man asks the king for a ship to set out in search of an unknown island.

Will the brave man obey the caravel? Who has volunteered to be his assistant? How will the adventurous journey end?..

In “The Tale of the Unknown Island”, similar to a fairy tale from “One Thousand and One Nights”, Saramago departs from the novel form and creates a story - a thoughtful parable about a skeptical elite and courageous dreamers, the subtleties of human relationships and the uncharted islands in each of us.

“The Tale of the Unknown Island” is the shortest work by José Saramago, published as a separate book. This text was the writer’s last book before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.