''Journey to Portugal'' (''Viagem a Portugal'' in Portuguese) is a non-fiction book on Portugal by

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-winning author

José Saramago José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ComSE GColCa (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony ith which hec ...

. It was first published in 1981 by Círculo de Leitores e Editorial Caminho.

Critical assessment

An English language translation was published in 2001. A review in ''

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'' praised the book, calling it a "monumental work, a literary hybrid that intermingles an intimate portrait of a nation with aspects of a novel, travel log and guide book." Writing in ''

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'', Michael Pye was critical of the book, saying "As books of travel go, this one goes wrong from the start; it is downright solipsistic", and concluded that the book was better as a guide to Saramago rather than as a guide to Portugal. The book was also reviewed in ''World Literature Today'', ''The Washington Post'', ''New Statesman'', and ''The Spectator''.

References

Works by José Saramago 1981 non-fiction books Portuguese-language works Books about Portugal {{Travel-book-stub