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	José Saramago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		José Saramago (born November 16, 1922) is a Portuguese writer, playwright, and journalist.
		Saramago was born into a family of landless peasants in Azinhaga, Portugal, a small village in the province of Ribatejo some hundred kilometers north-east of Lisbon.
		Although Saramago was a good pupil, his parents were unable to afford to keep him attending a grammar school, moving him to a technical school at age 12; after finishing school, he worked as a car mechanic for two years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jose_Saramago (716 words)

	Jose Saramago. Biography and complete works
		Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998.
		José Saramago was born in 1922 in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.
		Saramago's tone is ironic - he mixes different views from the Prime Minister and the US president to tourist officers and European Community.
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/saramago.htm (1126 words)

	BOMB Magazine: Jose Saramago by Katherine Vaz
		José Saramago (the "J" is pronounced like the English "J," not the Spanish one) published his first novel, The Land of Sin, in 1947, and there followed a lacuna in his literary output, though he worked as a journalist, critic, and translator.
		Saramago, born in 1922 and a witness to the Salazar era, picked up and moved to Lanzarote, where he now lives with his wife, Pilar del Rio.
		Saramago was in Newark to speak in the Daniel and Elvira Rodrigues lecture series at the Rutgers-Newark State University.
	www.bombsite.com /saramago/saramago.html (399 words)

	Mass Humanities: An Interview with Jose Saramago
		José Saramago was born on November 16, 1922, the child of landless peasants in Azinhaga, Portugal, a small village northeast of Lisbon.
		Although both Saramago and his critics emphasize the formative importance and independent value of his earlier works, for a majority of his readers it was his 1982 historical novel Baltasar and Blimunda (entitled Memorial do Convento in Portuguese) that brought him critical acclaim and a wide readership.
		Saramago's unorthodox exploration of historical scenarios, begun with his revisitation of the Portuguese eighteenth century in Baltasar and Blimunda, continued throughout the 1980s and beyond, from the 1930s Portugal of Salazar's dictatorship in The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984) to ancient Galilee in The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991).
	www.mfh.org /newsandevents/newsletter/MassHumanities/Spring2002/interview.html (2032 words)

	AllRefer.com - JosE Saramago (Spanish And Portuguese Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		A Communist, Saramago was essentially a journalist until the revolution of 1974.
		Saramago's protagonists are often portrayed resisting some kind of stifling and dehumanizing social institution.
		Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Saramago.html (293 words)

	Nobel in Literature Goes to José Saramago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Saramago discounts the influence of Latin American "magical realism" on his work, his novels often use the supernatural, allegorical, paradoxical and irrational to address questions of faith and existence.
		Saramago, whose work includes poetry, essays, plays and a journal as well as 10 novels, is unusual for having emerged as a major literary figure only at the age of 60.
		Saramago is constantly present as a voice of European skepticism, a connoisseur of ironies," Mr.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/books/100998nobel-saramago.html (1254 words)

	Listen carefully: 1/3/99
		Jose Saramago slowly stretches out his long legs, disturbing one of the two sleeping poodles at his feet, and smiles and says he is aware of the gripes about his style.
		Saramago's works are nourished by his deep feeling for the richness of Portuguese history, by his relish in depicting a vast, detailed historical canvas that is a backdrop for his meditative observations on society and his skill at articulating private and tender stories.
		Saramago has a deep and conspicuous compassion for his fellow man, a generosity of spirit that extends, as in his novel, "Blindness," even to the wicked whom he doesn't censure but with whom, instead, he empathizes.
	www.s-t.com /daily/01-99/01-03-99/e05ae172.htm (1492 words)

	The Leonard Cohen of World Lit - José Saramago, novelist. By Sarah Kerr
		Saramago is often said to unite his native European skepticism with the Latin American school of magical realism.
		Borges, Saramago is an outspoken political activist of a decidedly left-wing slant.
		To see what people thought of Saramago before his Nobel Prize, here are reviews of Blindness, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis at the time of their original English language publication (free registration is required to see these reviews).
	www.slate.com /id/4278 (1169 words)

	CNN - Jose Saramago hopes Nobel Prize good for Portugal - October 8, 1998
		Saramago then held an impromptu news conference, but reportedly had to abandon it when a crush of reporters surged forward to speak to him.
		Saramago has long been considered a favorite for the prize, as he is indisputably Portugal's best-known literary figure.
		Saramago's parents were farmers and though he went to school in Lisbon, he spent much of his childhood in the countryside.
	www.cnn.com /books/news/9810/08/nobel.lit.02 (696 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| The militant magician
		José Saramago, a Nobel prizewinner, now 80, and a lifelong communist, was formed by his experience of Portugal's rural poverty and the struggle against Salazar's dictatorship.
		Saramago describes his outspokenness as that of "the simple citizen, which we all are".
		Saramago, who turned 80 last month, was born in Azinhaga, an agricultural village 100km north of Lisbon in 1922.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,865565,00.html (2827 words)

	José Saramago e as FARC
		José Saramago, em entrevista a Yamid Amat, publicada no dia 28 de Novembro pp, pelo diário El Tiempo de Bogotá, o influente diário da oligarquia colombiana (400 mil exemplares), emitiu opiniões sobre as organizações guerrilheiras daquele pais que pelo seu conteúdo suscitaram compreensível surpresa.
		Saramago é um grande escritor que pela sua obra conquistou enorme e merecido prestigio mundial.
		É estranhável também que José Saramago na extensa entrevista em que nega aos guerrilheiros colombianos a dignidade de revolucionários comunistas se tenha esquecido de incluir qualquer crítica ao presidente Álvaro Uribe, um político de extrema direita, ligado pelo seu passado aos bandos de paramilitares e narcotraficantes, responsável por uma estratégia de terrorismo de estado.
	www.resistir.info /colombia/saramago_farc.html (363 words)

	Online NewsHour: Nobel Prize Winner-- October 9, 1998
		JOSE SARAMAGO: (speaking through interpreter) Having won it as a writer in the Portuguese language is a great honor, and gives me a feeling of enormous responsibility and respect for all those writers before me.
		JOSE ORNELAS: What I like best about his works is the way he looks at the world and how he is able to look at reality and look at things that other people do not see.
		JOSE ORNELAS: Well, I think languages and cultures and need these types of prizes, because it's one way that they can renovate themselves, in other words, what's happening here is that Portuguese culture and Portuguese language is on the map.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec98/nobel_10-9.html (1100 words)

	Das Zentrum von José Saramago
		Saramagos Zentrum ist eine in ihren gigantischen Ausmassen und Möglichkeiten einschüchternde wie Wünsche weckende Kathedrale des Konsums, allmächtiger Arbeitgeber und Handelspartner, dazu Wohnmaschine mit Krankenstation, ein Altersheim mit künstlichen Erlebniswelten und Entsorgungsanstalt seiner ausscheidenden Bewohner.
		Saramagos Töpfer überlegt, was er gegen den Verlust der Arbeit unternehmen könnte und kommt mit seiner Tochter auf eine blendende Idee.
		Saramago ist ein Bruder seines Töpfers, er bleibt auf eine herzergreifend unerschütterliche Weise sachlich.
	www.lyrikwelt.de /rezensionen/daszentrum-r.htm (1402 words)

	BRAZZIL - News from Brazil - JOSÉ SARAMAGO PROFILE
		Saramago has won numerous literary prizes; I see his novels on the best seller lists in Brazil; and yet when I look into Southern California bookstores I'm lucky to find one copy of his latest work.
		Saramago accused the minister of culture (and probably others in the government) of censorship, and in turn this broke open another interminable argument, between Saramago -- who is a member of the committee of the Portuguese Communist Party -- and his detractors who did not fail to remind him about censorship in the Soviet
		However, one is not really surprised to learn of Saramago' s grand passion for his wife and his ability to express it so acutely and so lovingly.
	www.brazzil.com /p54jul95.htm (2584 words)

	Bookreporter.com - ALL THE NAMES by Jose Saramago
		Saramago's first novel since BLINDNESS is ALL THE NAMES, a novel of simple prose and intelligent ironies rich in thought.
		Senhor Jose is a timid and reclusive middle aged bachelor working as a low-level bureaucrat in an unnamed Central Registry of Births, Marriages, and Deaths.
		Saramago writes with clarity and simplicity and lets the words work their way into the reader like a warm summer tide upon a sandy beach.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0151004218.asp (454 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Cave" by Jose Saramago
		Saramago's work is more about his graceful weave of language, characters and ideas, his courtly first-person-plural voice with its digressions and soliloquies on the nature of storytelling or the contradictions of parenthood or the way dogs observe human beings, than about the final pattern his books assume.
		On this archetypal David-vs.-Goliath framework, Saramago drapes the distinctive flow of his prose, what you might call his 19th century postmodernism, with its run-on paragraphs of unpunctuated dialogue, its extended asides, its frequent direct address to the reader.
		It's his profligate interest in life, his storyteller's joy with words, his understanding that the realms of experience and ideas need not be separate, his belief in the possibility of finding love and changing your life at any age, his lyricism on such subjects as food and sleep, his undiluted affection for all his characters.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2002/12/05/saramago (969 words)

	Jose Saramago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago's new novel, which goes on sale next month, explores the chaos generated in an unnamed country where people suddenly...
		Nobel laureate Jose Saramago says even though his new novel is about death, it will make the reader laugh.
		José Saramago (born 1922 in Azinhaga, Portugal) is a writer, playwright, and journalist.
	www.wikiverse.org /jose-saramago (518 words)

	Journey to Portugal - José Saramago
		Saramago’s traveler can be ill-tempered at times (“To see carriages used for pomp and ceremony annoys him”) and curmudgeonly.
		“Alas,” Saramago informs us, “the traveler is not a drinker.” Instead, his attention is drawn to the stonework of the ancient castles, churches and monasteries—some of them intact from the late Roman era—that seem to be fixtures of many Portuguese villages and towns.
		Journey to Portugal is sometimes exalted at the expense of the present, Saramago isn’t a reactionary holdout for a lost or mythical Golden Age.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/JourneytoPortugal.htm (480 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Blindness (Panther S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This is the basis for Saramago's intriguing and disturbing tale of what happens to the foundations of society and the human spirit under such a terrifying condition.
		The book is both an exciting journey and a fascinating study of human behaviour as Saramago leads us into seeing the horrifying events that occur when the government orders the blind to live together in a hospital, left to fend for themselves through their blindness.
		Saramago uses his characters as vehicles to convey his complex themes extremely effectively, also allowing us to both experience the stumbling of the blind and to see the devastating effects through the eyes of the doctor's wife.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1860466850 (1249 words)

	José Saramago: "Arrogant unilateralism will create further resentment"
		He has called for silencing the drums of war in the Mexican state of Chiapas and in Palestine, the latter of which he compared to Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp where Jews were exterminated during the Holocaust.
		In a collective letter to the president of the United States in early February, he wrote that war is always a step backwards, it is a failure of democracy, of development and understanding: "it is a defeat for all humanity".
		Saramago spoke with Tierramérica in an exclusive interview during his visit last week, to Milan, Italy, where he presented his most recent book, "O Homem Duplicado" (The Duplicated Man).
	www.tierramerica.net /2003/0302/idialogos.shtml (659 words)

	The Double, The Cave by Jose Saramago - read reviews
		In what may be Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago's most playful—and, perhaps, popular—novel, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso, a secondary school history teacher, views a film given to him by a colleague and discovers in the film an actor who looks exactly like him in every respect.
		Powerful, often sad and humorous, too, are Saramago's observations as he uses this conflict, this tension to illustrate perversions of reality, the universal lie, and the general disrespect that has grown up toward fellow creatures.
		Saramago won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/saramago.htm (1213 words)

	Jose Saramago
		José Saramago was born in Azinhaga, in the province of Ribatejo.
		To see his country with with fresh eyes and fresh wonder, Saramago used the third person, observing as much his surrounding as his own reactions: "Here he is forced to recognise his own shortcomings, and admit he has everything to learn.
		All this Saramago paralles with the creative process of a writer: "The gaping mouth sends up a cry we shall never hear, for none of these things is real, what we are contemplating is mere paper and ink, nothing more." Maria Magdalene is a prostitute to whom Jesus gives his virginity.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /saramago.htm (1193 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: All the Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Whether it is the Iberian peninsula literally breaking off from the rest of Europe in The Stone Raft or an entire country afflicted by a devastating malady in Blindness, he is fascinated by the effects of isolation on the human soul and, correspondingly, the redemptive power of compassion.
		Jose Saramago performs a splendid job of getting into the head of Senhor Jose by highlighting the deductions of internal thought and inquiry and protecting scenarios of anticipated dialogue with others, as demonstrated by his internal dialogues with the ceiling in his house.
		Saramago's method resulted in a highly enjoyable and nuanced protagonist that is believable and three-dimensional.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0156010593 (1749 words)

	Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago
		Jose Saramago, recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Azinhaga, Portugal to Jose de Sousa and Maria da Piedade.
		Saramago published his first book of poetry, OS POEMAS POSIVEIS, when he was 44 years old.
		Saramago currently lives with his wife on the island of Lanzarote in the Canaries.
	ilil.essortment.com /nobelprizejose_rrgz.htm (340 words)

	CNN - Portugal's Jose Saramago wins Nobel Literature Prize - October 8, 1998
		STOCKHOLM, Sweden (CNN) -- Outspoken Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago on Thursday was named the winner of the 1998 Nobel Literature Prize.
		He is the first writer in Portuguese to receive the world's most prized literary award, which is worth $950,000 and will be presented at a ceremony in Stockholm on December 9.
		Saramago wrote his first novel in 1947 but had to wait some 35 years before winning critical acclaim with works such as the "Memorial do Convento" about the building of the convent of Mafra outside Lisbon.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9810/08/nobel.literature.01 (670 words)

	Read Hot: The Cave by Jose Saramago
		In The Cave, Jose Saramago tells the story of Cipriano Algor, an old man who makes his living selling hand-made pottery.
		Saramago was educated as a technician, and before becoming a journalist, translator, and writer; he did a number of manual jobs.
		In the 1970s Saramago supported himself mostly by translating works, and since 1979 he has devoted himself entirely to writing.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /readhot/book_review.php?book_id=123 (476 words)

	Bureaucracy Tries Men's Souls / A clerk's quest for a woman in his files becomes a deft, Kafkaesque parable of art and ...
		The Central Registry of Portugese author Jose Saramago's tender and mysterious seventh novel, ``All the Names,'' is a wondrous place, a punctilious bureaucracy that records the births, marriages and deaths of all its city's citizens under the nearly godlike direction of the great Registrar himself, whose every twitch sets his dominions quaking.
		Both Joses share the same goal, after all, which is to rescue somebody from the oblivion of unbeing, from the anonymity and undifferentiation of the cosmic Central Registry to which all of us are ultimately condemned.
		Senhor Jose's hunt is almost uninterruptedly comic, which makes the surprises he discovers, and their emotional consequences for him, all the more affecting.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/01/RV69987.DTL (985 words)

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