Jose Saramago

But the disadvantage with testimonys, whatever their claim with the truth, it is their lack of precision in the details and their impassioned restitution of the events… The proliferation of testimonys of second order or third that some copied, others transmitted without care, that some repeated by hearsay, others modified them in the details in very good or bad faith, that some freely interpreted, others rectified them, that some propagated with a total indifference, others proclaimed them like the single, eternal and irreplaceable truth, the latter being most suspect of all.
History of the head office of Lisbon (quoted in the Missings )

Jose de Sousa Saramago (November 16th 1922, Azinhaga, Portugal) is a writer and Journaliste Portuguese which accepted in 1998 the Nobel Prize of literature.

It presents in several of its works of the reconstitutions of historical events by underlining the human factor of these events rather than to present an official historical version. Some of its works can also be seen like allegories.

He currently lives in the Canary islands (Spain). Saramago is member of the Portuguese Communist party since 1969. It is atheistic and describes itself like a pessimist. Its positions caused the controversy in Portugal, in particular after the publication of the Gospel according to Jesus-Christ . The novels of Saramago often present fantastic scenarios: in the stone Raft (1986), the Iberian peninsula separates from the Europe and derives on the Atlantique; in the Blindness (1995), a whole country is struck by an epidemic of blindness; in the year of died of Ricardo Reis (1984), one of the hétéronymes of Fernando Pessoa survives one year after the death of the poet.

Currently, Jose Saramago is strongly engaged in the movement altermondialist, taking part in the worldwide social forums and being one of the signatories of the Manifeste of Porto Alegre. It also engaged in the dispute of the official version of the Attentats of September 11th, 2001.

Style

The writing of Jose Saramago is made long sentences, rythmées by many commas. These sentences can be seen as a succession of short sentences where the comma would have replaced the point. They include/understand also many incidental clauses, which are as many digressions to the address of the reader. The dialogs themselves are not introduced classically by quotation marks or indents, but are treated in the forms of incidental clauses in the middle of the sentences. The absence of subparagraph gives to the page a very dense aspect.

Despite everything, the style of Saramago remains of a remarkable fluidity.

Works

Principal classification by kind, secondary classification by date of publication in Portuguese.

Poetry

  • Os Poemas Possíveis , 1966
    • possible poems , transl. by Nicole Siganos, J. Brémond, Remoulins-on-Gardon, 1998, 185 p. bilingual Edition
  • Provavelmente Alegria , 1970
  • O Ano of 1993 , 1975

Tests

  • Deste Mundo E C Outro , 1971
  • has Bagagem C Viajante , chronicles, 1973
  • As Opiniões that O DLL teve , 1974
  • Os Apontamentos , chronic policies, 1976
  • Viagem has Portugal , 1981
    • Portuguese Pérégrinations , transl. by Genevieve Leibrich, the Threshold, Paris, 2003,437 p.
  • Discursos de Estocolmo , 1998
  • How the character was the Master and the author his apprentice , transl. and postf. by Michelle Giudicelli, Editions Thousand and One Nights, coll “the small collection”, Paris, 1999, 44 p.
  • Folhas políticas: 1976-1998 , 1999

Newspapers

  • Cadernos of Lanzarote , 5 vol., 1994-1998.

Theater

  • has Noite , 1979
  • That Farei COM Este Livro? , 1980
  • has Segunda Vida of Francisco de Assis , 1987
  • In Nominates Dei , 1993
  • Don Giovanni or O dissoluto absolvido , 2005

Tales and news

  • Objecto Quase , 1978, new
    • Quasi objects , transl. by Claude Fages, Salvy, Paris, 1990, 182 p.
  • Poética back Cinco Sentidos - O Ouvido , 1979
  • O Conto da Ilha Desconhecida , 1997
    • the tale of the unknown island , transl. by Genevieve Leibrich, engravings of Olivier Besson, the Threshold, Paris, 2001, 59 p.

Novels

Operas

Two texts of Saramago inspired by the operas of Azio Corghi:
  • God penguin become Blimunda , opera in 3 acts - according to Memoriale del Convento of Jose Saramago 1990 Milan
  • Divara - Wasser und Blut , musical drama in 3 acts - according to In Dei of Jose Saramago 1993 Münster nominates (for the birthday of the town of Münster)

Articles

  • Chiapas, a combat for dignity in Manner of seeing - vol. 2000,49 (January-February); p. 84-86
  • to attack the taboo of the democracy in Manner of seeing - vol.??? ; p. 20-23

References

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