Saramago Jose

Casi un objeto

Saramago Jose, 2008

Saramago nos ofrece en este libro una coleccion de cuentos. En ''Silla'', una carcoma va royendo el asiento de Salazar hasta que cae la dictadura. ''Embargo'' nos cuenta la ocupacion de un hombre por su automovil, mientras la gasolina se acaba y la muerte se cierne sobre ambos. En ''Reflujo'', un unico cementerio va absorbiendo todos los demas. En ''Cosas'' el autor imagina una ciudad sometida a una dictadura absoluta. Un ultimo ser fantastico, mitad hombre y mitad caballo, se esconde en las sombras de ''Centauro''. Y en ''Desquite'' un muchacho se lanza a un rio sabiendo que en la otra orilla lo espera una chica desnuda. Подробнее

Seeing

Saramago Jose, 2008

Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of voters have turned out. Puzzlement swiftly escalates to shock when eventually, after an extension, the final count reveals seventy per cent of the votes are blank — not spoiled, simply blank. National law decrees the election should be repeated eight days later. The result is worse; eighty-three per cent of the votes are blank. The incumbent government receives eight per cent and the opposition even less. The authorities, seized with panic, decamp from the capital and place it under a state of emergency. Who are the insurgents? Why the desire to destabilise the country? The authorities leap from one possibility to the next, but achieve nothing. The lack of hostility exacerbates things, since how can justice be meted out when not a single law has been broken? To all intents and purposes the administration is blind. Similarities to the plague of blindness that struck the city four years ago become apparent. In his new novel, Jose Saramago has deftly created the politician's ultimate nightmare: disillusionment not with one party, but with all, thereby rendering the entire democratic system useless. «Seeing» explores how simply this could be achieved and how devastating the results might be. Подробнее

Blindness

Saramago Jose, 2013

A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with a supposedly civilised society are snapped. No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. This is not anarchy, this is blindness. Подробнее

Ensayo sobre la lucidez

Saramago Jose, 2006

Durante las elecciones municipales de una ciudad sin nombre, la mayoría de sus habitantes decide individualmente ejercer su derecho al voto de una manera inesperada. El gobierno teme que ese gesto revolucionario, capaz de socavar los cimientos de una democracia degenerada, sea producto de una conjura anarquista internacional o de grupos extremistas desconocidos. Las cloacas del poder se ponen en marcha: los culpables tienen que ser eliminados. Y si no se hallan, se inventan. Con esta obra Saramago, un escritor que se ha convertido en la conciencia lúcida de una época cegada por los mecanismos del poder, lanza una llamada de alerta: «Puede suceder que un día tengamos que preguntarnos Quién ha firmado esto por mí». Ese día puede ser hoy. Подробнее

Historia del Cerco de Lisboa

Saramago Jose, 2008

Raimundo Silva es corrector de textos en una editorial; la única misión de su vida consiste en revisar libros. Un día, trabajando sobre un texto histórico, toma una decisión: introducir un «no» donde debiera aparecer un «sí». Sin saberlo, además de alterar la historia escrita, el conservador Raimundo cambiará para siempre su trayectoria personal. Ya no volverá a ser el sujeto paciente y anodino de siempre, porque su acto de rebeldía le hace asumir el protagonismo que, como hombre -y por tanto ser hegemónico-, le corresponde. En esta novela no sólo se relata el derribo del histórico cerco de la ciudad de Lisboa, sino también del que impide al hombre comunicarse con sus semejantes. Pero el último cerco que se derrumba en este libro es el de la soledad, definitivamente abatido por el amor realizado. Подробнее

The Lives of Things

Saramago Jose, 2012

The Lives of Things collects Jose Saramago's early experiments with the short story form, attesting to the young novelist's imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and Kafkaesque hallucinations, these stories explore the horror and repression that paralyzed Portugal during the harsh regime of Salazar and pay tribute to human resilience in the face of injustice and institutionalized tyranny. Beautifully written and deeply unsettling, The Lives of Things illuminates the development of Saramago's prose and records the genesis of those themes that resound throughout his novels. Подробнее

The Double

Saramago Jose, 2005

Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. Saramago's novel explores the nature of individuality and examines the fear and insecurity that arise when our singularity comes under threat, when even a wife cannot tell the original from the imposter... Подробнее

Saramago Jose

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