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José Saramago


Born
in Golegã, Azinhaga, Portugal
November 16, 1922

Died
June 18, 2010

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Theatre

Influences
Franz Kafka, Ernesto Sabato, Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, Jorge L ...more


José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which have been seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today."

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"José e Pilar. Conversas inéditas" XII

Mi compasión está con los que están trabajando de sol a sol, por un salario miserable, también en Portugal y también en España, explotados por empresarios que van a misa y se dan golpes de pecho. Pilar del Río In José e Pilar. Conversas inéditas, Pág. 178
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“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness
tags: regret, regrets, sincerity
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“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago
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“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
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October 2020 New School Group Read

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck, 1935, 256 pages
 
  81 votes, 26.5%

 
  51 votes, 16.7%

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende, 1998, 432 pages
 
  48 votes, 15.7%

Blindness by José Saramago, 1995, 326 pages
 
  39 votes, 12.7%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 1990, 555 pages
 
  31 votes, 10.1%

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, 1957, 220 pages
 
  29 votes, 9.5%

On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 1957, 296 pages
 
  27 votes, 8.8%

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