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Savoring two masters of fiction: Saramago and Morante
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Rose Moss is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. She teaches
creative writing in the Nieman program at Harvard University.
I have been reveling in the novels of Jose Saramago, last year's
Nobel prize winner. Most recently, I read "Blindness" and "The Siege
of Lisbon," but I started with "The Stone Raft" and knew I'd struck
gold with the first sentence: "When Joanna Carda scratched the ground
with the elm branch all the dogs of Cerbere began to bark" and the
inhabitants panic, fearing...
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Savoring two masters of fiction: Saramago and Morante
The Boston Globe
; Rose Moss is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. She teaches creative writing in the Nieman program at Harvard University. I have been reveling in the novels of Jose Saramago, last year's Nobel prize winner. Most recently, I read "Blindness" and "The Siege of Lisbon," but I started with "The Stone
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Magic Realized: Saramago Wins Nobel; Portuguese Author Ascended Quickly -- and Late -- to Literature Prize
The Washington Post
; ... Harold Bloom, had no need to waffle. "Oh, this is very good news! They called me from Stockholm a few weeks ago, canvassing various ... everyone loses their sight. (See review on this page.) When the news came out, Saramago was on his way to the airport from the Frankfurt ...
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Prophet of doom: pessimism is our only hope. The gospel according to Jose Saramago.(Biography)
Book
; EMERGING FROM AN ELEGANT LUNCHEON HELD in his honor into a clear, sunshiny afternoon, Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago says there is only one word to convey his emotional state: Boredom. I don't see people walking, he says through an interpreter when asked if he's enjoying his brief trip to
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Passion is driving force behind translator's work
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; Jose Saramago is probably the most famous Portuguese novelist, and he's considered one of the great novelists in the world. In the view of Margaret Jull Costa, the woman who translates his novels into English, he is "a late starter who just may be a late finisher as well. "He is a remarkable man,
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The misuses of allegory.(Jose Saramago's politics)(Critical Essay)
The Nation
; THE CAVE. By Jose Saramago. Harcourt Brace. 307 pp. $25. Is Jose Saramago an anti-Semite? The answer might be allegorical. In March 2002, during a visit to Ramallah with seven other delegates of the International Parliament of Writers, Saramago compared the situation of Palestinians in the occupied
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A Nobelist's allegorical analysis of the human condition.(Books)
The Washington Times
; Many of the articles and press releases that occasioned the awarding of the Nobel Prize in literature to the Portugese novelist Jose Saramago went out of their way to emphasize his soft spot for the common man. Indeed, one would expect this from a writer who once was a metalworker and who remains
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Jose Saramago: Art for Reason's Sake.
World Literature Today
; ... unfortunate that much of the international news concerning the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature ... gains on stock markets comprise the primary news of the day. He is therefore appalled that ... 21 When one looks into the second major news item, the Vatican's reaction, it soon becomes ...
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A hollow mandate.(Ensaio sobre a Lucidez)(Book Review)
Foreign Policy
; Ensaio sobre a Lucidez (Essay on Lucidity) By Jose Saramago 330 pages, Lisbon: Editorial Caminho, 2004 (in Portuguese) Suppose they gave a democracy and nobody came? Not an unreasonable question, given the dismal voter turnout in the recent elections for the European Parliament. It's a conundrum
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Saramago's moral blindness
Jerusalem Post
; 00-00-0000 Headline: Saramago's moral blindness Byline: MARK A. HELLER Edition; Daily Section: Opinion Page: 08 Friday, March 29, 2002 -- If you're not careful about details, you can get all upset about the wrong thing. Take me, for example. One morning this week, I turned on the radio and heard
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Traveler in an Antique Land
The Washington Post
; ... tectonic plate from which Massachusetts broke off. Portugal is crowded against the Atlantic by Spain. Portuguese and Spanish maps disagree at several places as to where the border might be. Portugal was the Roman colony Lusitania (Latin for "land of the playfully ...
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