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Jose Saramago
A driver waiting at traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading…
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The world’s threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practising medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders…
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When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-first by surreal events and…
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A multi-generational family saga that paints a sweeping portrait of modern Portuguese political history.
Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. Saramago’s novel explores the nature of…
and the beautiful typist whose boss can’t keep his eyes off her. Poisonous relationships, happy marriages, jealousy, gossip and love - Skylight brings together the joys and grief of ordinary…
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness comes this follow-up, set in the same capital city four years after being hit by an epidemic of blindness. What begins as a…
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Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago tells a quiet and poetic story, an excerpt from his book Small Memories, of a lasting childhood experience of simple, soulful joy.
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For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. So begins a journey that will take the stalwart elephant across the dusty plains of Castile, over the sea to…
La presente obra, una joya literaria que recupera recuerdos de infancia y adolescencia del autor. Me interesa conocer mi relacion con ese nino que fui. Ese nino que esta en…
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Senhor Jose is a minor official in a registry office, with a passion for reconstructing people’s lives from the data in archive documents. One woman’s file is particularly intriguing. She…
Undertakers face bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinvent its doctrine, and local ‘maphia’ smuggle those on the brink of death over the border where they can expire naturally. Death…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Jose Saramago’s Blindness, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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Don Jose is a lonely, humble, and insignificant government worker at the office of vital statistics. As an innocent pastime, he starts collecting news about the rich and famous. When…
Saramago portraits an imaginary encounter between Fernando Pessoa and Ricardo Reis, who venture back to Portugal after the establishment of the dictatorship of general Salazar. The Year of the Death…
La novela perdida de Jose Saramago. Donde todo comenzo… Amanece en Lisboa. En una manana de mediados del siglo XX, la mirada del novelista se asoma a la ventana de…
Through the Alentejo family, Saramago conveys the story of rural Portugal from 1920 until 1979, including the Workers Movement Revolution of 1974. The author captures the language of the peasants…
Set in Portugal, 1711, amidst the terrors of the Inquisition and the plague, a seemingly mismatched couple discovers the wonders of love. This rich, irreverent tale, full of magic and…
Amanece en Lisboa. En una manana de mediados del siglo XX, la mirada del novelista se asoma a la ventana de un vecindario. Se anuncia un dia no muy diferente…
Si las historias para ninos fueran de lectura obligada para los adultos, ?seriamos capaces de aprender lo que, desde hace tanto tiempo, venimos ensenando?
Un bello relato para ninos… y…
The brilliantly original achievement of Siege [Historia del cerco de Lisboa] is the comical, hesitant, and ]]powerfully erotic progress of the couple’s mutual courtship. Saramago is one of Europe’s most…
Jose Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country. From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape…
Standing before a red light, a man suddenly goes blind. He is the first in an epidemic of blindness that strikes a city and the result is chaos.
For Saramago, the life of Jesus and the story of His Passion are things of this Earth: a child crying, a gust of wind, the caress of a woman half…
In eighteenth-century Portugal, fifty thousand laborers carry stones on their backs across mountains to build the king’s convent, a heretical priest devises a magic flying machine–the Passarola–and two lovers’ dream…
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Portuguese novelist Jos Saramago introduces Senhor Jos, a clerk in the city’s Central Registry and collector of clippings of the famous and notorious…
Tertuliano Afonso is depressed. After a colleague suggests he rent a certain video, Tertuliano is astonished to see a man who looks exactly like him–or, more specifically, like he did…
One of Mr. Saramago’s last books, and one of his most touching, (New York Times), this posthumous memoir of his childhood, written with characteristic wit and honesty, traces the formation…
Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter and her husband in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous, constantly expanding conglomerate that provides his livelihood - until it…
En esta novela la muerte decide suspender su trabajo letal; la gente deja de morir. Pero eso no significa que el tiempo haya parado.
The Nobel Prize-winning author explores his homeland in this monumental work, a literary hybrid of cultural history, literary nonfiction, and travelogue (Publishers Weekly).
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness comes this follow-up, set in the same capital city. What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the…
On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is…
A na?ve Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. He is chosen to lay down his life for man. In the desert it is not Satan but…
What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating Spain and Portugal from the rest of Europe? In Saramago’s fable, a new island is…
When Raimundo Silva, humble proof-reader for a Lisbon publishing house, takes it upon himself to insert a negative into the sentence of a history book, he rewrites history. The effect…
In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that…
Portuguese Nobel Laureate Saramago tells a fantastic tale about a city hit by an epidemic of white blindness, in this work that is the basis for the upcoming movie with…
Libros de los itinerarios –P. [4] of cover.
El mito del paraiso perdido es el de la infancia, no hay otro. Lo demas son realidades por conquistar, sonadas en el presente, guardadas en el futuro inalcanzable. Y, sin…
Written in 1947, The Widow is the author’s first novel, which was published in Portugal under the title Terra do pecado, a decision made by the editor. Today, with the…
Maybe through boredom, maybe through a spirit of contradiction, a publisher’s proof reader alters a key word in a text, and thus changes a good deal more than he bargained…
Un volumen que reune dos libros de articulos de Jose Saramago, escritos entre 1968 y 1972 para el diario A Capital y el semanario Jornal do Fundao.
Los dos libros…
An early example of Saramago’s mastery, this novel takes us into the last days of Salazar’s dictatorship when a second-rate artist is commissioned by a wealthy client to paint a…
Mark Sabine
Making use of insights from Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, and Marcuse, among others, Mark Sabine argues that Saramago sought to engage his reader with a skeptical but vibrant utopianism: teaching us…
