What to Read When the World Is Ending
Books to read in this fraught political moment.
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Posts Tagged: Jose Saramago
What to Read When Things Go Nuclear
Here are some books to read that will remind you that there is beauty out there, even if it’s hard-wrought.
...moreManual of Painting and Calligraphy, by Jose Saramago
Initially published in Portugal in 1976, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy is one of Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago’s first novels. He was fifty-four when he wrote it, and had spent most of life, as our translator Giovanni Pontiero puts it, doing “various manual jobs.”
...moreTriumph and Oblivion
José Saramago’s posthumous novel The Elephant’s Journey is an exploration of the self—and a gift to his readers.
...moreThings To Look Forward To In 2010
“The Notebook is the collected entries from 87-year-old Saramago’s blog, O Caderno de Saramago. The book, ‘which has already appeared in Portuguese and Spanish, lashes out against George W. Bush, Tony Blair, the Pope, Israel and Wall Street,’ according to the Independent, in its report on the book’s Italian publisher dropping it for criticizing Prime […]
...moreJulie Greicius: The Last Book(s) I Loved, The Lost City of Z and All the Names
Years ago, when I was an archaeologist, I learned my favorite concept in the broader field of anthropology, or any field for that matter: “imperialist nostalgia.” It’s the yearning we feel for something we ourselves have conquered or destroyed, a term as obviously applicable to affairs of the heart as it is to the study […]
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