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The history of the siege of Lisbon
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The history of the siege of Lisbon

Author: José Saramago; Giovanni Pontiero
Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1998.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st Harvest edView all editions and formats
Summary:
A proofreader in a publishing house changes a word in a manuscript to make a history book read that a 12th Century battle was strictly a Portuguese victory, rather than a joint victory with the Crusaders. Instead of being fired the proofreader is commissioned to develop the idea into a novel. A study in historical revisionism.
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Genre/Form: Historical fiction., Parables.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: José Saramago; Giovanni Pontiero
ISBN: 0156006243 9780156006248
OCLC Number: 40275832
Notes: Originally pub. as hbk.: c1996.
Description: 314 p. ; 21 cm.
Other Titles: História do cerco de Lisboa.
Responsibility: José Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.

Abstract:

A proofreader in a publishing house changes a word in a manuscript to make a history book read that a 12th Century battle was strictly a Portuguese victory, rather than a joint victory with the Crusaders. Instead of being fired the proofreader is commissioned to develop the idea into a novel. A study in historical revisionism.

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