José Saramago One of the great feather-and-keyboard literature of the twentieth and twenty-first Nobel Prize in 1998, Doctor Honoris Causa of several universities English and European member of the International Parliament of Writers in Strasbourg and a long list of awards and decorations that reflect a remarkable creative energy and tireless activity of social engagement, ideological and great thinker. It made us think about love, death, pessimism, optimism, the defeat and victory, the blindness of life, the great silence that is God, you need not to disappoint the child we also said ... our current society that isolation, technological revolution and a life centered on the personal triumph are the three diseases affecting man.
Committed writing, polemics, profound, poignant and provocative to the grammar and even removed him from their land, but always poignant and masterful. Saramago wrote "when I had something to say" and since one couple of years he also published his blog: The book - "a personal space on the infinite Internet page. The latest blog post is an invitation to the importance of thinking twice.
This company intrumental, liquid and fearful as recently reviewed by Bauman and Touraine and contaminated by frivolity, discourtesy and compulsive consumerism, ethical and philosophical needs purification.
I remember the first book that I read Jose Saramago: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis , almost reluctantly and curriculum requirement but has become one of the finest narrative reflections on the sense of a momentous time in the history of Europe and Spain materialized in Lisbon and the poet Ricardo Reis.
"All the islands, even known, are unknown until we land on them. "Landing in almost forty islands inhabited by his words - The Blindness, The man doubled All names, Death uninterrupted L to Cavena , The lucid essay, Memorial of the Convent, The Gospel According to Jesus ... your poetry or stories - is the best discovery for castaways who want to read . Even two of his best works: The Stone Raft (1986) and Blindness (1995) been made into a film directed by George Sluizer and Fernando Mirelles respectively.
Perhaps your challenge, dissent and clarity of thought and begin with the same God in Cain and maintained even in the novel he was writing now about the weapons industry and the absence of strikes in this sector ... What is certain is that the voice of the great master himself has been finally broken this time by a deadly pneumonia.
"God, the devil, good, evil, all that is in our head, not in heaven or hell, who also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately become enslaved to it ...".
he rest in freedom that is as always wanted to live.
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