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  <title><![CDATA[The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1986</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[José Saramago]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 28 01:55:20 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 15 18:03:53 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, what a strange, strange book.  It's gloomy and lovely, full of disconnection, hope and despair.  The language is oftentimes achingly beautiful.  But I just can't give it five stars.  I'm beginning to think I have some predestined aesthetic for absolutely falling in love with certain books while ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2477039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11190117">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 28 18:10:42 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 30 13:50:12 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A strange, dreamy book that is as much about how life fades into death as early 20th Century Portuguese history. Saramago's voice dominates every page of the work to the extent that it seems to be a monologue about a fictional figure and not a novel in the traditional sense. Reis, the main character...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11190117">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="476681">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 29 00:05:07 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 19 12:05:52 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is so beautifully written it hurts.  it made me promptly go out and read other saramago, but nothing (including blindness) has compared yet (i'm going to read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2530.Baltasar_and_Blimunda" title="Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago">baltasar and blimunda</a> soon...).  and the meta pomo on top of pomo backbone with pessoa and multiple character identities inhabiting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/476681">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55711142">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 11 14:47:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 11 15:12:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was turned on to this book via James Wood's &quot;How Fiction Works.&quot; Wood cites Saramago,who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, as a unique stylist. <br/><br/>That he is. I learned from Wood that the way we expect novelists to handle dialog . . .<br/>(&quot;I love you,&quot; she sai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55711142">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51276396">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 02 11:48:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 19 15:31:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Pessoa's works always leave me the impression of a person unwilling or not capable to identify his own identity. Well, in this book Saramago dissects the dilemma by manipulating Ricardo Reis. I find that Ricardo Reis dialogues with Pessoa as the most intriguing part of the narrative, as Sara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51276396">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42507847">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 09 16:10:07 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 13 10:05:53 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would say that this is one of Saramago's least accessible books. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed this novel even though it is as different from &quot;Blindness&quot; as one author could conceivably get.<br/><br/>And this makes sense because this book is sort of a tribute to the Portuguese poet F...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42507847">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52057969">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 09 07:59:06 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 10 11:18:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the third Saramago book I have read (prev. read All the Names on the recommendation of a friend who is a writer, and read Blindness because the movie was coming out soon thereafter and I thought I should read it first... never ended up seeing the movie). The three novels share Saramago's dis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52057969">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3369578">
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    <location><![CDATA[Mexico]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 22 01:04:31 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 22 01:30:12 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been on a José Saramago reading spree since picking up an English translation of The Double in one of the very few sources for reading material in English here in southern Mexico, after unsuccessfully trying to get through a Spanish translation of El hombre duplicado. Saramago has some writerl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3369578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15052032">
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    <location><![CDATA[Brazil]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 10 09:16:29 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 25 18:32:57 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[  Sinceramente, não consegui absorver em essência esta obra do Saramago. <br/>  Apesar da escrita corrida e seca em relação as pontuações, características comum ao autor, o livro soa muito bem escrito, com passagens que nos remetem Camões e fazem assim uma sugestão de intertextualidade ent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15052032">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28182253">
    <user id="369169">
    <name><![CDATA[Lori]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Tobyhanna, PA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 05 19:22:28 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 24 13:03:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 05 19:22:28 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>&quot;who will be thinking at this moment what i am thinking, or think that i am thinking in the place where i am, because of thinking. who will be feeling what i am feeling, or feel that i am feeling in the place where i am, because of feeling. who is using me in order to think and feel, and among ...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28182253">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37798068">
    <user id="103301">
    <name><![CDATA[Tom]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 15 10:27:06 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 16 14:29:04 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[5 stars for absolutely beautiful prose and a marvelously directed story.  The subject matter is not the happiest, though it left me feeling elated to have read it.  Saramago's writing is just downright beautiful.  And I am left wondering why I haven't rushed out to read more books by this author.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37798068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49361042">
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 15 13:41:30 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 15 13:44:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A difficult slow book, not an easy read, but immensely satisfying in its detailed portrait of the internal process of a man slowly dissolving his attachment to the world around him. ]]></body>
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    <review id="45573730">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis, tudo gira à volta de Fernando Pessoa e dos seus heterónimos. Saramago tem uma escrita difícil, complexa mas gostei bastante.]]></body>
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    <review id="41938796">
    <user id="48874">
    <name><![CDATA[Samuel]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.&quot;<br/><br/>It took me a month to read it as it is the due date tomorrow. It requires patience - the sort of meandering plotless novel that does not seem to lead to anywhere, but I say that as a point of caution not bec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41938796">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60514734">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A meditation on literature and politics: Saramago's take on the Salazar dictatorship and the limited ability of literature to transcend.]]></body>
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    <review id="56685448">
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    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat May 23 19:12:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A slice of life book set in Lisbon in the late 30's. Its a bit dense but very Saramago. It was helpful to read about the relationship between Ricardo Reis and Fernando Pessoa.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri May 23 07:27:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was drawn to read this book because Ricardo Reis is a heteronym of the Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa (who also appears in the novel.) A &quot;heteronym&quot;, as it relates to Pessoa, is a literary persona. Pessoa had many of them, each of whom wrote his own style of poetry. His heteronyms even...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22806091">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Das Todesjahr des Ricardo Reis. by Jose Saramago (1997)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Slow, meandering, dense, surreal.  Saramago has a tendency to concentrate on the most random minutiae, and apparently doesn't believe in paragraphs that aren't a page long.  I'm still not sure if I was adequately rewarded for the immense effort I put forth reading this, but the book does contain som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22941365">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this more than ten years ago but remember it as being haunting and crisply translated. Very fine book from a literary giant.]]></body>
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