In the evening
The action takes place in a newspaper office, in Lisbon, on the night of April 24th to 25th, 1974. Any resemblance to real life characters and their sayings and deeds is pure coincidence. evidently
Foundation
Portugal
2014 (1st edition at Porto Editora; 4th edition)
Language
Portuguese
The calligraphy on the cover is by the writer Armando Baptista-Bastos
«A Noite, Saramago's first dramatic work that the writer dedicates to Luzia Maria Martins, the person who “thought him capable of writing a play”. It would be. The night spoken of in this play has gone down in history: from April 24 to 25, 1974. The action takes place in a newspaper office in Lisbon and the author warns: “Any resemblance to real life characters and their sayings and deeds is pure coincidence. Of course.”» (Diário de Notícias, 9 October 1998)
