Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

{{short description|1977 novel by José Saramago}}

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Manual of Painting and Calligraphy (Portuguese: Manual de Pintura e Caligrafia) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago.{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1998 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1998/summary/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=13 November 2024}} It was first published in 1977.{{cite book |last1=Murphy |first1=Neil |last2=Wang |first2=W. Michelle |last3=Lee |first3=Cheryl Julia |title=The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art |date=11 March 2024 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-003-80730-8 |page=2 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Routledge_Companion_to_Literature_an/JLP4EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA2&printsec=frontcover |language=en}} An English translation by Giovanni Pontiero was published in 1993. The plot of the novel involves H., who paints the industrialist S. and has an affair with his secretary.