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Obituary: Giovanni Pontiero
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Giovanni Pontiero was the ablest translator of 20th-century
literature in Portuguese and one of its most ardent advocates.
He will be identified with two writers above all (though he was
responsible for the first English versions of many others): the
idiosyncratic Ukrainian- born Brazilian Clarice Lispector, six of
whose novels he translated, as well as a number of her shorter
pieces, and of whom he had planned to begin a literary biography
this year; and, more recently, the celebrated...
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Masterful `Blindness' helps readers see much
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Blindness. By Jose Saramago. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. Harcourt Brace. 293 pages. $22. For many years now, the Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago has been hammering on the door of the Nobel judges. The sound has grown more insistent lately as five of his works have made
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`Blindness' a parable of crystalline vision
The Boston Globe
; BLINDNESS By Jose Saramago Translated, from the Portuguese, by Giovanni Pontiero Harcourt Brace, 293 pp., $22 For many years now the Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago has been hammering on the door of the Nobel judges. The sound has grown more insistent lately as five of his works have made their
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.
The Nation
; By Jose Saramago. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. Harcourt Brace. 377 pp. $23.95. Portugal sits in the Iberian Peninsula as an eclipsed region in the heart of Europe, its culture commonly overshadowed in international circles. Few twentieth-century Portuguese writers, for example, have managed to
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Selected Cronicas
Americas
; Selected Cronicas, by Clarice Lispector. Trans., Giovanni Pontiero. New York: New Directions, 1996. The cronica, a literary genre popular in Brazil, is a short newspaper article that can address any topic and take a variety of forms. From 1967 to 1973 Clarice Lispector, one of the Southern
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Books in brief
The Independent - London
; - Manual of Painting and Calligraphy by Jose Saramago, trs Giovanni Pontiero, Carcanet pounds 14.95. The European Art Novel is as daunting a prospect as the European Art Movie, but this Portuguese academic's 1977 debut is, once you've accustomed yourself to its terrain, surprisingly easy to
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(book reviews)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction
; Jose Saramago. Blindness. Trans. Giovanni Pontiero. Harcourt Brace, 1998. 294 pp. $22.00. From Sophocles' Oedipus the King to Beckett's Endgame, writers have used the figure of the blind man to dramatize the vulnerability of the individual buffeted by the forces of existence. The stress has usually
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Vision quest
The Village Voice
; lion Ques Blindness By Jose Saramago Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero Harcourt Brace, 294 pp., $22 BY DWIGHT GARNER In his recent memoir, Planet of the BEnd, the poet Stephen Kuusisto, who was born nearly sightless, is stunned to discover that `weakness and lack of affect are
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Now You See, Now You Don't
The Washington Post
; BLINDNESS By Jose Saramago Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero Harcourt Brace. 293 pp. $22 A few pages into Jose Saramago's "Blindness," I was reminded of Albert Camus' essay on Franz Kafka. Camus points out that Kafka's characters seem so bizarre precisely because they accept their
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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BRILLIANT PORTUGUESE WRITER SEIZES ON EPIC EXPLORATION OF EPIDEMIC.(Lifestyle)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; For many years now, Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago has been hammering on the door of the Nobel judges. The sound has grown more insistent lately as five of his works have made their way into English (a paperback of ``Baltasar and Blimunda'' is being reissued this fall, and most of the others are
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(book review)
Book
; All the Names Harcourt 256 pages Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa Jose Saramago THERE IS A CERTAIN comforting feeling you can get from being in the presence of greatness. Like watching the Chicago Bears of 1985 or the Montreal Canadiens of the 1970s, listening to John Coltrane
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