6/20/2023 0 Comments The double saramago![]() ![]() Saramago is, in the not uncommon fashion of Latin intellectuals, an avowed Communist his sympathy for workers broadens and solidifies his fictional thought-experiments. His prose is open to philosophical and psychological speculation as well as to homely folk wisdom, and its flights into the impossible are balanced by a feeling for the daily routines and labors that compose, for most of humanity, the substance of existence. He found his groove in the baroque magic-realist historical novel “Baltasar and Blimunda” (1982 in Portugal, when he turned sixty 1987 in the U.S.), and combines, in the novels of his productive eighth decade-“Blindness” (1995, 1997), “All the Names” (1997, 1999), and “The Cave” (2000, 2002)-fantastic premises with a relaxed, disarmingly direct style and a quizzical, respectful interest in everyday life. He was a late starter in the lists of fiction, having been a civil servant and sometime journalist to the age of fifty. ![]() The Portuguese novelist José Saramago, born in 1922, has not let the Nobel Prize, which he received in 1998, slow him down. ![]()
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