CAIN By José Saramago. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa 159 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $24. God is a petulant, small-minded tyrant in José Saramago's final novel. Its protagonist, Cain, is sympathetic, a picaresque hero. But that description may give the wrong idea by implying ponderous qualities indicated by the phrase ''village atheist.''...
SMALL MEMORIES A Memoir By José Saramago Translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Illustrated. 139 pages. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $22. Among Nobel laureates of recent vintage, only Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the prize in literature last year, has delivered as much pure pleasure as the Portuguese novelist José Saramago. Saramago's best books read...
THE ELEPHANT'S JOURNEY By José Saramago Translated by Margaret Jull Costa 205 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $24 The Portuguese writer José Saramago died in June at the age of 87. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998, having peaked as a writer later in life. His prose is impish and subtle enough to bear comparison with Italo Calvino and...
José Saramago (16. november 1922 - 18. juni 2010) var en portugisisk forfatter. Han regnedes af mange for en af Portugals største forfattere. Han fik i 1998 Nobelprisen i litteratur.
Saramago skrev levende og fabulerende, og var ikke bange for at lege med sætningsstrukturer, handlingsforløb og fortællerperspektiv. Saramago var i vid udstrækning autodidakt, og var kendt for sin ateisme.
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