José Saramago's novels stand out for the way they revisit varied narratives and canons: this is the case with *The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis* (1984) and *The Gospel According to Jesus Christ* (1991), which are among the author's most significant works and are analyzed in this essay. The aim is to enter Saramago's workshop to investigate how his writing is constructed from other creations and to understand part of what constitutes his literary signature, his style. While Saramago's work certainly constitutes a remarkable testimony to a moment in Portuguese history and literature, his writing also draws attention because it is part of a continuous critical and literary conversation that neither begins nor ends with him and that does not close in on itself.

| José Saramago Foundation / Paperback / 590 pp. / 140 x 210 x 35 mm |