{"title": "Hist\u00f3ria do cerco de Lisboa", "subject_times": ["Siege, 1147"], "covers": [111991], "subject_places": ["Lisbon (Portugal)"], "first_publish_date": "1989", "key": "/works/OL27418W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL3112635A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "dewey_number": ["869.3/42"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "History", "Proofreading", "Sieges", "Siege of Lisbon (Portugal : 1147) fast (OCoLC)fst01354847", "Lisbon (portugal), history", "Portugal, history", "Fiction, historical, general", "Portugal, fiction", "Lisbon (portugal), fiction"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Raimundo Silva, a proofreader at a Portuguese publishing house, takes it upon himself to alter a key word in a text to make it read that in 1147 the king of Portugal reconquered Lisbon from the Saracens without any assistance from the Crusaders. His revision of a signal episode in Portuguese history unexpectedly and inexplicably wins the heart of his supervisor, Maria Sara, a woman of unwavering conviction.\r\n\r\nRather than fire him as she ought to, Maria encourages Raimundo to rewrite the history of the siege of Lisbon in the grand style of a historical romance. Around this seemingly minor episode Jose Saramago constructs a broad, multifaceted tableau involving meditations on historiography and the uses and abuses of language, a parable of life under authoritarian rule, and a bittersweet romance."}, "latest_revision": 14, "revision": 14, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-13T02:46:28.838662"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-17T15:02:53.495471"}}