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José Saramago


Born
in Golegã, Azinhaga, Portugal
November 16, 1922

Died
June 18, 2010

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Literature & Fiction, Theatre

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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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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.”
― José Saramago, Blindness
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September 2021 New School Classic Group Read

 
  56 votes, 26.2%

Blindness by José Saramago, 1995, 326 pages
 
  53 votes, 24.8%

Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham, 1930, 308 pages
 
  30 votes, 14.0%

The Bone People by Keri Hulme, 1984, 450 pages
 
  25 votes, 11.7%

These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer, 1926, 352 pages
 
  19 votes, 8.9%

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, 1987, 277 pages
 
  18 votes, 8.4%

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, 1988, 515 pages
 
  13 votes, 6.1%

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