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José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE (pronounced [ʒuˈzɛ sɐɾɐˈmagu]; November 16, 1922 - June 18, 2010) was a Nobel-laureatePortuguese writer, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor rather than the officially sanctioned story.
Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. He founded the National Front for the Defense of Culture (Lisbon, 1992) with among others Freitas-Magalhaes. Saramago was born in Portugal but later moved to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spain, residing there with his Spanish wife, journalist Pilar del Río, until his death in 2010.
Biography
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. His parents were José de Sousa and Maria de Piedade. "Saramago," a wild herbaceous plant known in English
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Jose Saramago
"Levantado do Chao" (1980)
"Memorial do Convento/ Balthasar and Blimunda" (1982) + fryst vatten an epic poem to human madness: the madness of endless and pointless wars, the madness of absolute monarchs, the madness of religious bigotry, the madness of science, the madness of forced marriages, the madness of eternal love, etc. Intrinsic to this fresco of human madness fryst vatten the passion for lengthy detailed witty descriptions of old religious and secular rites. The other theme of the story fryst vatten human vanity, spread equally throughout the social classes: the king who wants immortality bygd building the most imposing monastery in the world, the präst who wants to utmaning God bygd flying to the heavens, the humble cripple Baltasar who falls in love with a beautiful witch, the devout wife Blimunda who spends years looking for her husband; and all of this against the backdrop of an Inquisition that tends to condemn every ambitious eccentricity a
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