José Saramago / The Work / Translated by Saramago

The naked trip

Juan Bautista Piñero
The naked trip

Editorial Estampa published the novel in 1980. The naked trip by Juan Bautista Piñero, translated from the French by José Saramago.

In the epigraph, the Spanish writer states: “To the accounts of travels and adventures that I read with fervor, some memories of which, more or less altered by memory or will, permeate this text.”

The cover is a watercolor by René Magritte, from 1952, entitled Le Séduction.