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1. The Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 51
Pages
(2000-10-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description Even without the "Once upon a time," it's clear from the opening sentenceof José Saramago's mischievous and wise The Tale of the UnknownIsland that we have entered a somewhat fractured fairy tale. Of course,it could be argued that all of his works are, in some form or another,fairy tales, from the whimsical, revisionist History ofthe Siege of Lisbon to the darker dystopia of Blindness. Originally published as a short story in Portugal, Unknown Islandcontains all of the elements Saramago is famous for--dry wit, a seeminglysimple plot that works on many levels, and an idiosyncratic use ofpunctuation, among other things. It begins as a satire concerned with theabsurdity of bureaucracy as supplicants arrive at the king's door forpetitions while the king himself waits by the door for favors: Customer Reviews (29)
Meanders before completely petering out
Sweet Tale
Servitude and Freedom
Haunting mythic poetic story
Wonderful read |
2. The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(2010-09-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant’s journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary people. Out of this material, José Saramago has spun a novel already heralded as “a triumph of language, imagination, and humor” (El País). Solomon and his keeper, Subhro, begin in dismal conditions, forgotten in a corner of the palace grounds. When it occurs to the king and queen that an elephant would be an appropriate wedding gift, everyone rushes to get them ready: Subhro is given two new suits of clothes and Solomon a long overdue scrub. Accompanied by the Archduke, his new wife, and the royal guard, our unlikely heroes traverse a continent riven by the Reformation and civil wars. They make their way through the storied cities of northern Italy: Genoa, Piacenza, Mantua, Verona, Venice, and Trento, where the Council of Trent is in session. They brave the Alps and the terrifying Isarco and Brenner Passes; they sail across the Mediterranean Sea and up the Inn River (elephants, it turns out, are natural sailors). At last they make their grand entry into the imperial city. The Elephant’s Journey is a delightful, witty tale of friendship and adventure. Customer Reviews (38)
Needs better editing
Kindle Buyer Beware!!!
Where does an elephant sit? - anywhere it wants to!
A lighthearted and engaging adult fairy tale
A Long Slog |
3. Blindness (Movie Tie-In) by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 352
Pages
(2008-09-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description In this community of blind people there is still one set of functioningeyes: the doctor's wife has affected blindness in order to accompany herhusband to the asylum. As the number of victims grows and the asylumbecomes overcrowded, systems begin to break down: toilets back up, fooddeliveries become sporadic; there is no medical treatment for the sick and noproper way to bury the dead. Inevitably, social conventions begin tocrumble as well, with one group of blind inmates taking control of thedwindling food supply and using it to exploit the others. Through it all,the doctor's wife does her best to protect her little band of blindcharges, eventually leading them out of the hospital and back into thehorribly changed landscape of the city. Blindness is in many ways a horrific novel, detailing as it doesthe total breakdown in society that follows upon this most unnaturaldisaster. Saramago takes his characters to the very edge of humanity andthen pushes them over the precipice. His people learn to live ininexpressible filth, they commit acts of both unspeakable violence andamazing generosity that would have been unimaginable to them before thetragedy. The very structure of society itself alters to suit thecircumstances as once-civilized, urban dwellers become ragged nomadstraveling by touch from building to building in search of food. The devilis in the details, and Saramago has imagined for us in all its devastationa hell where those who went blind in the streets can never find their homesagain, where people are reduced to eating chickens raw and packs of dogsroam the excrement-covered sidewalks scavenging from corpses. And yet in the midst of all this horror Saramago has written passages ofunsurpassed beauty. Upon being told she is beautiful by three of hercharges, women who have never seen her, "the doctor's wife is reduced totears because of a personal pronoun, an adverb, a verb, an adjective, meregrammatical categories, mere labels, just like the two women, the others,indefinite pronouns, they too are crying, they embrace the woman of thewhole sentence, three graces beneath the falling rain." Inthis one womanSaramago has created an enduring, fully developed character who serves bothas the eyes and ears of the reader and as the conscience of the race.Andin Blindness he has written a profound, ultimately transcendentmeditation on what it means to be human. --Alix Wilber Customer Reviews (418)
Reading with Tequila
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Beauty in Blindness: A Story of Human Struggle
Blindness
Eat the weak |
4. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 396
Pages
(1994-09-28)
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Father Figures
Shouldn't Amazon state the case size?.The case is so small I decided not to read it.
You can't cheat a Cheater
Lacking Faith in His Own Doubt ...
Thought provoking creatively written |
5. All the Names by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 264
Pages
(2001-10-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description A recurring theme in many of Saramago's novels is the very human strugglebetween withdrawal and connection.Whether it is the Iberian peninsulaliterally breaking off from the rest of Europe in The Stone Raft or anentire country afflicted by a devastating malady in Blindness, he isfascinated by the effects of isolation on the human soul and,correspondingly, the redemptive power of compassion. All the Namescontinues to mine this rich vein as the repressed clerk follows his unknownAriadne's thread out of the labyrinth of his own strangled psyche and intolife. Readers will find here Saramago's trademark love of the absurd, hisbrilliant imagery and idiosyncratic punctuation, as well as the unflinchingyet tender honesty with which he chronicles the human condition. --AlixWilber Customer Reviews (60)
Kindle version is LOADED with errors
worth the effort
Senhor Jose is nuts
did not care for writing style
Minor problem with translation |
6. Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 360
Pages
(1998-11-05)
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Not a Book for Haters
Excellent service
First book since childhood that I read two times
A Banquet of Words, Sauced with Irony
3.5 out of 5:Enchanting prose and believable love story |
7. Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2009-09-02)
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Simply Stunning
Who Needs Death?
Saramago -- for fun.
Perfect as always in the Saramago's case
What happens on the following day? |
8. Ensayo sobre la ceguera / Blindness (MTI) (Spanish Edition) by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(2009-08-17)
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Cuativante reflexión sobre diversos temas
A story without brightness
Ensayo sobre la ceguera (Blindness)
Espectacular
Very captivating book! |
9. El Evangelio Segun Jesucristo / The Gospel According To Jesus Christ (Spanish Edition) by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 496
Pages
(2010-09-20)
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El Evangelio según Saramago 10 años después, cae este libro en manos de esta humilde venezolana, quien no puede evitar maravillarse y espantarse por esta lectura. El libro no debería titularse El Evangelio según Jesucristo, sino según Saramago, porque el gran protagonista de la obra, y sobre quien pesa todo el dilema moral de la culpabilidad, es el carpintero José. La vida de Jesús adulto ocupa menos de la mitad del libro, yse revuelve alrededor de la culpabilidad heredada de su padre por haber permitido la matanza de los inocentes en Belén. La prosa de Saramago es impecable y llena de humor, la impostación de problemasen la prehistoria cristiana que podemos pensar como contemporáneos como crisis existenciales, ataques de pánico, es realmente genial. La novela puede resultar a momentos demasiado irreverente para aquellos que a pesar de no ser cristianos practicantes, hemos nacido y hemos sido criados como católicos. Nuestra religión y la de nuestros ancestros es puesta en ridículo.Todo sea por amor a la literatura.
perturbador luis mendez
Brillante! Excelente! ...
perturbador LUISMENDEZ
El Jesus como Hombre |
10. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 368
Pages
(1992-04-27)
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Harder to relate if you're not Portuguese
Brilliant and Disturbing
Saramago At His Best
Brilliant book but easy to misunderstand
A supplement to the previous review |
11. Ensayo sobre la lucidez (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition) by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 464
Pages
(2005-01-01)
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Trabajo en Equipo !!
A first-rate addition to Saramago's works
Inventando el enemigo
Reflexión sobre la democracia |
12. The Notebook by José Saramago | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(2010-04-06)
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Fascinating essays
Like sunshine in a dungeon
THE NOTEBOOK
José Saramago: Ave atque Vale
Absolutely Wonderful |
13. Levantado del suelo/ Picked Up from the Ground (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition) by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 432
Pages
(2009-02-27)
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Uno de los grandes!! |
14. Seeing by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2007-04-09)
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Worst book I have ever read in my entire life
A Political Fable
great read!!
A complete disappointment
Don't think of it as a sequel, review by 17-year old |
15. The Cave by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2003-10-15)
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Over My Head
Loved this book!
Somewhat Unsatisfying
Powerful Illuminated Masterpiece
Digested and banal truth presented as revelation |
16. Cain (Spanish Edition) by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 200
Pages
(2009-12-28)
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Editorial Review Product Description Cain clearly demonstrates the modern and surprising aspects of Saramago s prose: the ability to weave a completely new tale out of a story we all know. An ironic and satirical journey where the reader is present at a secular and in a way, involuntary battle between the creator and his creature. Spanish Description: Cain pone de manifiesto lo que hay de moderno y sorprendente en la prosa de Saramago: la capacidad de hacer nueva una historia que se conoce de principio a fin. Un ironico y mordaz recorrido en el que el lector asiste a una guerra secular, y en cierto modo, involuntaria, entre el creador y su criatura. Customer Reviews (2)
Caîn and Jose Saramago
nice |
17. Todos los nombres/ All the Names (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition) by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2008-04-25)
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Una gran novela psicol�gica
The duty of not forgetting Saramago's theme in 'Todos os nomes' is best stated as aquestion:When do people truly die?Saramago seems to be saying that, inthe world of the living, the dead must also have a place, and it is ourduty to remember them.Therein also lies our dignity.In this enterprise,ironically, individual names don't matter; they are all, in the finalanalysis, the same because everybody (the famous and the not-so-famous) isequal in death. Even though I enjoyed 'Todos os nomes', I found somesections verbose and trivial because too much time is spent in relatingthings that don't add much to the main theme.In those cases, it seemed asif Saramago didn't have a clear idea of where he was heading to in thenarrative.But the main character of 'Todos os nomes', Sr. Jose(incidentally, the only character that has a name in the novel), is trulyengaging, probably because in his obsessive nature he has an intenseinternal life that reminds us so much of ourselves. Perhaps 'Todos osnomes' is not one of Saramago's best novels.It is, however, one thatdeserves attention, particularly from those interested in Saramago'sworldview.
One exhausts superlatives
Mas alla de un acercamiento
Excelente Tecnica Descriptiva con Habilidady Vocabulario |
18. Todos Os Nomes (O campo da palavra) (Portuguese Edition) by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 279
Pages
(1999-12-20)
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19. El viaje del elefante (Spanish Edition) by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(2009-02-27)
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tequilasunrise:
Again Saramago
Saramago como siempre
Maraviiloso Como Siempre El Maestro Saramago! |
20. The Double by Jose Saramago | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2005-10-03)
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Easily one of my favorite books!
Excellent narratology and identity study.
A challenging, worthwhile read
DOUBLE THE EXPERIENCE
More entertaining when read in big gulps (4+ stars) |
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