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A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness' that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her..more
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An unexplained plague of 'white blindness' sweeps the unnamed country. Initial attempts to hastily quarantine the blind in an abandoned mental hospital fail to contain the spread. What they succeed at is immediately creating the easy 'us versus them' divide between the helpless newly blind and the terrified seeing. Before we know, we are immersed in the..more
Then imagine you go to the trusty health professionals so they can get to the bottom of it.. the doctor doesn't know what's wrong with you, but you're confident he/she will figure it out and prescribe accordi..more
review of another editionSome say that the structure of the book makes it very hard to read. I suppose the voice in my head did quite a good job in reading it as I did not encounter any d..more
Jun 24, 2014Lisa rated it it was amazing · review of another editionPeople waiting at a traffic light. All of us can see that before our inner eyes, relive thousands of similar situations we have experienced ourselves, without ever giving them a moment of consideration. Thus starts Saramago's Blindness. But there is a disruption. One car is not following the rules all take for granted. The car doesn't move when the light switches to green. People are annoyed, frustrated, disturbed in their routines, but not worri..more
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In H.G. Wells 'In the Country of the Blind' the only person who can see suffers great discrimination and has to agree to have his eyes removed and become as blind as the rest of the people who..more
“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”José Saramago’s Blindness can be viewed as an allegory for a world where we see but in fact neglect what is around us. It is a human condition, unquestionable a disease that in contemporary time has only agravated.
'.blindness is also this, to live in a world where all hope is gone.'Blindness is more than a dystopian novel, it is a philosophical work that makes us wonder about our..more
What an irony that a book which holds, loss, filth, loot, stomp, cruelty, disorientation, putrefaction, injustice, helplessness, murder, rape, misery, nakedness, abandonment, death and unimaginable suffering in its bosom, left me with a climactic emotion of beauty, overwhelming beauty. Beauty of what you ask? That of resilience, that of courage, that of insurmountable human spirit which perhaps hits its zenith when it is brutally pinned to the bottommost..more
Whether you interpret it as an allegory or otherwise, you will find that most of all Blindness is about being human, and the virtues and vices that define the fundamental human nature.
In a world full of blind people, where the civilization as we know it has completely deteriorated, people are no more identified and judged based on their profession, social status, outward appearances etc. All that remains to distinguish one person from another is one's voice, and the kind of person one is. When..more
Saramago is a pretty harsh critic, it seems, of organized structures like government or religion—and that's most clearly seen in the ways that the affected people create communities, how they respond to crises, and ultimately how..more
Goodness me. The horror. The chaos. These two moist pulpy vibratile objects of anatomy, one on either side of the nose, 'the window to the soul', are steering wheels of the body, the basis of all order in the fragile human world, without which the purpose of evolutionary biology is moot. What would it be like if everyone was struck by an epidemic of blindness, sudden and inexplicable, you and I 'catching' blindness from one..more
I read this over 10 years ago and it is still very present in my mind. It has repeatedly come back to me, I have been recommending it and thinking about it. Yes, also worrying a bit more.
Without spoiling it the story is quickly told: blindness spreads like a disease. It is terrifying in that it just happens, suddenly..more
Jose Saramago writes this specific story in such a way that you are one of the b..more
It would appear that that could be a description of me. Well, the reason's obvious - it's great fun to boot a bad book and some bad ideas all around this site, a chance for a few jokes, a laugh, a song and a hand grenade, a couple of pints of Scruttock's Old Dirigible and everyone goes home with a smile on their face, no harm done. Not so easy to describe greatness, s..more
There are, however, an increasingly large number of people going blind until there is only one left.
Chaos ensues.. one heartbreaking step at a time.
Simple concept, of course, but in this case, it is brilliantly executed. The writing is clear and transforms us every step of the way from our modern society into a cold cinder of civilization, with the fall of humanity experienc..more
Two decades later, and after thoroughly enjoying both 'The Double' and 'All the Names' in the last year or so, I got my ha..more
First: In order, one must assume, to make the reader’s experience as tantamount to the characters’ as possible, there are no names and no quotation marks to indicate speech. That’s fine enough, but he chooses not to use periods either, that makes almost every sentence,..more
This famous book begins with a pandemic of blindness somewhere-anywhere, which is unexplained and extremely unprecedented, rather transmitted, so that in a few days the society of suddenly and abruptly blind and helpless people is created.
This society is quarantined by prominent governmental actors and the rule of law that is still n..more
Somewhat important fact concerning this book and my review and rating of it: I saw this movie first, and felt that it (to be totally clear) fucking sucked*, but was fascinated by the plot enough to randomly pick up this novel one day when I so happened to pass a faced-ou..more
An unexplained mass epidemic of blindness spreads throughout a city, afflicting almost everyone, as civilisation begins to fall apart.
First things first, this book has an incredible premise and story but you gotta be prepared to put in a little elbow grease to get it! Unless, of course, you are used to reading walls of text with no speech marks and long-ass sentences that go on for half a page..
That is honestly my only re..more
There are no names in the book (the narrator identifies everybody by their traits) which makes the characters universal. In typical Saramago style, there are very few paragraph indents and very few periods, but a great number of commas. Also, as Saramago readers have come to expect, the language is deceptively simple yet loaded with meaning. Saramago conveys in half a dozen words what another writer would take..more
In the first half of this book i was constantly thinking 'We are fucking animals'. I found everything that was going on to be disturbing and disgusting. You know that feeling, the one that you feel like you want to vomit a little bit. The thing that frightened me the most was that i got used to it while the book was progressing. I didn't mind anymore.
It is pretty clear. If we ever get to be in this situation that's how things will go. Or even worse.
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I’ve read more than my share of post-apocalyptic novels where humanity is suddenly wiped out by a sudden plague or enslaved by aliens, attacked by zombies, buried under snow or under volcanic ash. I have even read one about people going blind overnight in The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Yet, none of them managed to touch me so deeply and to disturb me out of my comfortably numb daily routine as Jose Saramago’s account. There are no teenage chosen ones to pull us back from the brink of e..more
I read somewhere that this work of Saramogo, when published, was compared to Camus’ The Plague by many critics. Perhaps it is owing to the portrayal of a city facing an endemic in both works. On this account, the comparison is permissible. However, in my view, both works stand apart from each other. The reason primarily being that whereas The Plague, through an endemic, successfully brings forth the idea of solidarity among humans for a survival in an otherwise absurd world, Blindness on the oth..more
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| Born | José de Sousa Saramago 16 November 1922 Azinhaga, Santarém, Portugal |
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| Died | 18 June 2010 (aged 87) Tías, Lanzarote, Spain |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Period | 1947 – 2010 |
| Notable works | Baltasar and Blimunda Blindness All the Names Death with Interruptions The Double The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis |
| Notable awards | Camões Prize(1995) Nobel Prize in Literature(1998) |
| Spouse | Pilar del Río(1988-2010, his death) Ilda Reis (1944-1970, divorced) |
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José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE (Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ðɨ ˈsozɐ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as 'the most gifted novelist alive in the world today'[1] and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be 'a permanent part of the Western canon',[2] while James Wood praises 'the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant.'[3]
More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages.[4][5] A proponent of libertarian communism,[6] Saramago criticized institutions such as the Catholic Church, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. An atheist, he defended love as an instrument to improve the human condition. In 1992, the Government of Portugal under Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva ordered the removal of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ from the Aristeion Prize's shortlist, claiming the work was religiously offensive. Disheartened by this political censorship of his work,[7] Saramago went into exile on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, upon which he resided until his death in 2010.[8][9]
Saramago was a founding member of the National Front for the Defense of Culture in Lisbon in 1992, and co-founder with Orhan Pamuk, of the European Writers' Parliament (EWP).
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Early and middle life[edit]
Saramago was born in 1922 into a family of landless peasants in Azinhaga, Portugal, a small village in Ribatejo Province, some one hundred kilometers northeast of Lisbon.[8] His parents were José de Sousa and Maria de Piedade. 'Saramago', the Portuguese word for Raphanus raphanistrum (wild radish), was his father's family's nickname, and was accidentally incorporated into his name upon registration of his birth.[8]
In 1924, Saramago's family moved to Lisbon, where his father started working as a policeman. A few months after the family moved to the capital, his brother Francisco, older by two years, died. He spent vacations with his grandparents in Azinhaga. When his grandfather suffered a stroke and was to be taken to Lisbon for treatment, Saramago recalled, 'He went into the yard of his house, where there were a few trees, fig trees, olive trees. And he went one by one, embracing the trees and crying, saying good-bye to them because he knew he would not return. To see this, to live this, if that doesn't mark you for the rest of your life,' Saramago said, 'you have no feeling.'[10] Although Saramago was a good pupil, his parents were unable to afford to keep him in grammar school, and instead moved him to a technical school at age 12.
After graduating, he worked as a car mechanic for two years. Later he worked as a translator, then as a journalist. He was assistant editor of the newspaper Diário de Notícias, a position he had to leave after the democratic revolution in 1974.[8] After a period of working as a translator he was able to support himself solely as a writer.
Saramago married Ilda Reis in 1944. Their only daughter, Violante, was born in 1947.[8] In 1986 he met Spanish journalist Pilar del Río. They married in 1988 and remained together until his death in June 2010. Del Río is the official translator of Saramago's books into Spanish.
Later life and international acclaim[edit]
Saramago did not achieve widespread recognition and acclaim until he was sixty, with the publication of his fourth novel, Memorial do Convento. A baroque tale set during the Inquisition in 18th-century Lisbon, it tells of the love between a maimed soldier and a young clairvoyant, and of a renegade priest's heretical dream of flight. The novel's translation in 1988 as Baltasar and Blimunda (by Giovanni Pontiero) brought Saramago to the attention of an international readership.[8][11] This novel won the Portuguese PEN Club Award.
Saramago joined the Portuguese Communist Party in 1969 and remained a member until the end of his life.[12] He was a self-confessed pessimist.[13] His views aroused considerable controversy in Portugal, especially after the publication of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.[14] Members of the country's Catholic community were outraged by Saramago's representation of Jesus and particularly God as fallible, even cruel human beings. Portugal's conservative government, led by then-prime minister Cavaco Silva, did not allow Saramago's work to compete for the Aristeion Prize,[8] arguing that it offended the Catholic community. As a result, Saramago and his wife moved to Lanzarote, an island in the Canaries.[15]
The European Writers' Parliament (EWP) came about as a result of a joint proposal by Saramago and fellow Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. Saramago was expected to speak as the guest of honour at the EWP, but he died before the opening ceremony in 2010.[16]
Death and funeral[edit]
Saramago suffered from leukemia. He died on 18 June 2010, aged 87, having spent the last few years of his life in Lanzarote, Spain.[17] His family said that he had breakfast and chatted with his wife and translator Pilar del Río on Friday morning, after which he started feeling unwell and died.[18]The Guardian described him as 'the finest Portuguese writer of his generation',[17] while Fernanda Eberstadt of The New York Times said he was 'known almost as much for his unfaltering Communism as for his fiction'.[4]
Saramago's translator, Margaret Jull Costa, paid tribute to him, describing his 'wonderful imagination' and calling him 'the greatest contemporary Portuguese writer'.[17] Saramago had continued his writing until his death. His most recent publication, Claraboia, was published in 2011, after his death. Saramago had suffered from pneumonia a year before his death. Having been thought to have made a full recovery, he had been scheduled to attend the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August 2010.[17]
Portugal declared two days of mourning.[6][7] There were tributes from senior international politicians: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil), Bernard Kouchner (France) and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Spain), while Cuba's Raúl and Fidel Castro sent flowers.[6]
Saramago's funeral was held in Lisbon on 20 June 2010, in the presence of more than 20,000 people, many of whom had travelled hundreds of kilometres, but also notably in the absence of right-wing President of PortugalAníbal Cavaco Silva, who was holidaying in the Azores as the ceremony took place.[19] Cavaco Silva, the Prime Minister who removed Saramago's work from the shortlist of the Aristeion Prize, said he did not attend Saramago's funeral because he 'had never had the privilege to know him'.[7] Mourners, who questioned Cavaco Silva's absence in the presence of reporters,[7] held copies of the red carnation, symbolic of Portugal's democratic revolution.[19] Saramago's cremation took place in Lisbon,[19] and his ashes were buried on the anniversary of his death, 18 June 2011, underneath a hundred year old olive tree on the square in front of the José Saramago Foundation (Casa dos Bicos).[20]
Lost novel[edit]
The José Saramago Foundation announced in October 2011 the publication of a so-called 'lost novel' published as Skylight (Claraboia in Portuguese). It was written in the 1950s and remained in the archive of a publisher to whom the manuscript had been sent. Saramago remained silent about the work up to his death. The book has been translated into several languages.[21]
Style and themes[edit]
Dragon medical practice edition 2 download. Saramago's experimental style often features long sentences, at times more than a page long. He used periods sparingly, choosing instead a loose flow of clauses joined by commas.[8] Many of his paragraphs extend for pages without pausing for dialogue, (which Saramago chooses not to delimit by quotation marks); when the speaker changes, Saramago capitalizes the first letter of the new speaker's clause. His works often refer to his other works.[8] In his novel Blindness, Saramago completely abandons the use of proper nouns, instead referring to characters simply by some unique characteristic, an example of his style reflecting the recurring themes of identity and meaning found throughout his work.
Saramago's novels often deal with fantastic scenarios. In his 1986 novel The Stone Raft, the Iberian Peninsula breaks off from the rest of Europe and sails around the Atlantic Ocean. In his 1995 novel Blindness, an entire unnamed country is stricken with a mysterious plague of 'white blindness'. In his 1984 novel The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (which won the PEN Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Award), Fernando Pessoa's heteronym survives for a year after the poet himself dies. Additionally, his novel Death with Interruptions (also translated as Death at Intervals) takes place in a country in which, suddenly, nobody dies, and concerns, in part, the spiritual and political implications of the event, although the book ultimately moves from a synoptic to a more personal perspective.
Saramago addresses serious matters with empathy for the human condition and for the isolation of contemporary urban life. His characters struggle with their need to connect with one another, form relations and bond as a community, and also with their need for individuality, and to find meaning and dignity outside of political and economic structures.
When asked to describe his daily writing routine in 2009, Saramago responded, 'I write two pages. And then I read and read and read.'[22]
Personal life[edit]
Saramago was an atheist. The Catholic Church criticised him on numerous occasions due to the content of some of his novels, mainly The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Cain, in which he uses satire and biblical quotations to present the figure of God in a comical way. The Portuguese government lambasted his 1991 novel O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo (The Gospel according to Jesus Christ) and struck the writer's name from nominees for the European Literature Prize, saying the atheist work offended Portuguese Catholic convictions.
The book portrays a Christ who, subject to human desires, lives with Mary Magdalene and tries to back out of the crucifixion.[23] Following the Swedish Academy's decision to present Saramago with the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Vatican questioned the decision on political grounds, though gave no comment on the aesthetic or literary components of Saramago's work. Saramago responded: 'The Vatican is easily scandalized, especially by people from outside. They should just focus on their prayers and leave people in peace. I respect those who believe, but I have no respect for the institution.'[5]
Saramago was a proponent of anarcho-communism,[6][failed verification] and a member of the Communist Party of Portugal,[9] however, in his: 'Lanzarote Notebook 1', José Saramago cites a comment by Gabriel García Márquez, during a meeting in Santiago de Compostela, called by Manuel Fraga: 'You the Stalinist don't believe in reality'. As such 'communist' he stood for the 1989 Lisbon local election in the list of the Coalition 'For Lisbon' and was elected alderman and presiding officer of the Municipal Assembly of Lisbon.[24] Saramago was also a candidate of the Democratic Unity Coalition in all elections to the European Parliament from 1989 to 2009, though was often in positions thought to have no possibility of being elected.[24] He was a critic of European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies.[8]
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Although many of his novels are acknowledged political satire of a subtle kind, it is in The Notebook that Saramago made his political convictions most clear. The book, written from a Marxist perspective, is a collection of his blog articles for the year September 2008 to August 2009. According to The Independent, 'Saramago aims to cut through the web of 'organized lies' surrounding humanity, and to convince readers by delivering his opinions in a relentless series of unadorned, knock-down prose blows.'[25] His political engagement led to comparisons with George Orwell: 'Orwell's hostility to the British Empire runs parallel to Saramago's latter-day crusade against empire in the shape of globalisation.'[26]
When speaking to The Observer in 2006 he said 'The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens. As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved, it's the citizen who changes things. I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.'[27]
During the Second Intifada, while visiting Ramallah in March 2002, Saramago said: 'What is happening in Palestine is a crime we can put on the same plain as what happened at Auschwitz .. A sense of impunity characterises the Israeli people and its army. They have turned into rentiers of the Holocaust.'[3] Some critics of these words contended that they were antisemitic.[9][28][29] Six months later, Saramago clarified. 'To have said that Israel's action is to be condemned, that war crimes are being perpetrated - really the Israelis are used to that. It doesn't bother them. But there are certain words they can't stand. And to say 'Auschwitz' there .. note well, I didn't say that Ramallah was the same as Auschwitz, that would be stupid. What I said was that the spirit of Auschwitz was present in Ramallah. We were eight writers. They all made condemning statements, Wole Soyinka, Breyten Breytenbach, Vincenzo Consolo and others. But the Israelis weren't bothered about those. It was the fact that I put my finger in the Auschwitz wound that made them jump.'[3]
During the 2006 Lebanon War, Saramago joined Tariq Ali, John Berger, Noam Chomsky, and others in condemning what they characterized as 'a long-term military, economic and geographic practice whose political aim is nothing less than the liquidation of the Palestinian nation'.[30]
He was also a supporter of Iberian Federalism. In a 2008 press conference for the filming of Blindness he asked, in reference to the Great Recession, 'Where was all that money poured on markets? Very tight and well kept; then suddenly it appears to save what? lives? no, banks.' He added, 'Marx was never so right as now', and predicted 'the worst is still to come.'[31]
Awards and accolades[edit]
- 1995 - Camões Prize
- 1998 - Nobel Prize in Literature
- 2004 - America Award
- 2009 - São Paulo Prize for Literature — Shortlisted in the Best Book of the Year category for A Viagem do Elefante[32]
Nobel Prize in Literature[edit]
The Swedish Academy selected Saramago as 1998 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The announcement came when he was about to fly to Germany for the Frankfurt Book Fair, and caught both him and his editor by surprise.[8] The Nobel committee praised his 'parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony', and his 'modern skepticism' about official truths.[11]
Decorations[edit]
- Commander of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, Portugal (24 August 1985)[33]
- Grand Collar of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, Portugal (3 December 1998)[33]
The José Saramago Foundation[edit]
The José Saramago Foundation was founded by José Saramago in June 2007, with the aim to defend and spread the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the promotion of culture in Portugal just like in all the countries, and protection of the environment.[34] The José Saramago Foundation is located in the historic Casa dos Bicos in the city of Lisbon.
List of works[edit]
| Title | Year | English title | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terra do Pecado | 1947 | Land of Sin | ISBN972-21-1145-0 | |
| Os Poemas Possíveis | 1966 | Possible Poems | ||
| Provavelmente Alegria | 1970 | Probably Joy | ||
| Deste Mundo e do Outro | 1971 | This World and the Other | ||
| A Bagagem do Viajante | 1973 | The Traveller's Baggage | ||
| As Opiniões que o DL teve | 1974 | Opinions that DL had | ||
| O Ano de 1993 | 1975 | The Year of 1993 | ||
| Os Apontamentos | 1976 | The Notes | ||
| Manual de Pintura e Caligrafia | 1977 | Manual of Painting and Calligraphy | 1993 | ISBN1-85754-043-3 |
| Objecto Quase | 1978 | The Lives of Things | 2012 | ISBN9781781680865 |
| Levantado do Chão | 1980 | Raised from the Ground | 2012 | ISBN9780099531777 |
| Viagem a Portugal | 1981 | Journey to Portugal | 2000 | ISBN0-15-100587-7 |
| Memorial do Convento | 1982 | Baltasar and Blimunda | 1987 | ISBN0-15-110555-3 |
| O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis | 1984 | The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis | 1991 | ISBN0-15-199735-7 |
| A Jangada de Pedra | 1986 | The Stone Raft | 1994 | ISBN0-15-185198-0 |
| História do Cerco de Lisboa | 1989 | The History of the Siege of Lisbon | 1996 | ISBN0-15-100238-X |
| O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo | 1991 | The Gospel According to Jesus Christ | 1993 | ISBN0-15-136700-0 |
| In Nomine Dei | 1993 | In Nomine Dei | 1993 | ISBN9788571643284 |
| Ensaio sobre a Cegueira | 1995 | Blindness | 1997 | ISBN0-15-100251-7 |
| Todos os Nomes | 1997 | All the Names | 1999 | ISBN0-15-100421-8 |
| O Conto da Ilha Desconhecida | 1997 | The Tale of the Unknown Island | 1999 | ISBN0-15-100595-8 |
| A Caverna | 2000 | The Cave | 2002 | ISBN0-15-100414-5 |
| A Maior Flor do Mundo | 2001 | Children's Picture Book | ||
| O Homem Duplicado | 2002 | The Double | 2004 | ISBN0-15-101040-4 |
| Ensaio sobre a Lucidez | 2004 | Seeing | 2006 | ISBN0-15-101238-5 |
| Don Giovanni ou O Dissoluto Absolvido | 2005 | Don Giovanni, or, Dissolute Acquitted | ||
| As Intermitências da Morte | 2005 | Death with Interruptions | 2008 | ISBN1-84655-020-3 |
| As Pequenas Memórias | 2006 | Small Memories | 2010 | ISBN978-0-15-101508-5 |
| A Viagem do Elefante | 2008 | The Elephant's Journey | 2010 | ISBN978-972-21-2017-3 |
| Caim | 2009 | Cain | 2011 | ISBN978-607-11-0316-1 |
| Claraboia | 2011 | Skylight | 2014 | ISBN9780544570375 |
Further reading[edit]
- Baptista Bastos, José Saramago: Aproximação a um retrato, Dom Quixote, 1996
- T.C. Cerdeira da Silva, Entre a história e aficção: Uma saga de portugueses, Dom Quixote, 1989
- Maria da Conceição Madruga, A paixão segundo José Saramago: a paixão do verbo e o verbo da paixão, Campos das Letras, Porto, 1998
- Horácio Costa, José Saramago: O Período Formativo, Ed. Caminho, 1998
- Helena I. Kaufman, Ficção histórica portuguesa da pós-revolução, Madison, 1991
- O. Lopes, Os sinais e os sentidos: Literatura portuguesa do século XX, Lisboa, 1986
- B. Losada, Eine iberische Stimme, Liber, 2, 1, 1990, 3
- Carlos Reis, Diálogos com José Saramago, Ed. Caminho, Lisboa, 1998
- M. Maria Seixo, O essential sobre José Saramago, Imprensa Nacional, 1987
- 'Saramago, José (1922–2010).' Encyclopedia of World Biography. Ed. Tracie Ratiner. Vol. 25. 2nd ed. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005. Discovering Collection. Thomson Gale. University of Guelph. 25 Sep. 2007.
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- ^Cinzas de Saramago são depositadas aos pés de uma oliveira, em Lisboa UOL (18 de junho de 2011).
- ^'Claraboya, novela inédita de Saramago, verá la luz'. El País. 3 October 2011. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
- ^Maloney, Evan (4 March 2010). 'The best advice for writers? Read'. The Guardian. London. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^Nash, Elizabeth (9 October 1998). 'Saramago the atheist, an outsider in his own land'. The Independent. London.
- ^ ab'Communist Party of Portugal: Short Biographical note on José Saramago'. Pcp.pt. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2012-06-15.
- ^Wright, Thomas (4 April 2010). 'The Notebook by José Saramago: The Nobel laureate's blog entries burn with passion'. The Independent. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
- ^Rollason, Christopher (2006). 'How totalitarianism begins at home: Saramago and Orwell'(PDF).
- ^Meritt, Stephanie (30 April 2006). 'Interview: Still a street-fighting man'. The Observer. Retrieved 30 April 2006.
- ^De las piedras de David a los tanques de Goliat by José Saramago, El País 21/Abril/2002 (in Spanish).
- ^'Bigotry in Print. Crowds Chant Murder. Something's Changed'Archived 2010-01-12 at the Wayback Machine by Paul Berman, The Forward (available online here) May 24, 2002.
- ^'Israel, Lebanon, and Palestine: Tariq Ali, John Berger, Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano, Naomi Klein, Harold Pinter, Arundhati Roy, José Saramago & Howard Zinn'. 19 July 2006.
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- ^Folha Online (31 May 2009). 'Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura divulga finalistas'. Folha de S.Paulo. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
- ^ ab'Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas'. Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^José Saramago Foundation Statute(PDF), José Saramago, 2007
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- Donzelina Barroso (Winter 1998). 'Jose Saramago, The Art of Fiction No. 155'. The Paris Review.
- (in Portuguese)José Saramago Foundation
- José Saramago on IMDb
- The Unexpected Fantasist, a portrait of José Saramago, written by Fernanda Eberstadt and published August 26, 2007, in The New York Times Magazine
- Petri Liukkonen. 'José Saramago'. Books and Writers
- Societies of Mutual Isolation, an essay on Saramago by Benjamin Kunkel from Dissent
- 'The Year of the Death of Jose Saramago' in memoriam from n+1
- Video Saramago - Where's the democracy? on YouTube (English subtitles)
- 'Raised from the Ground by José Saramago – review', Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian, 26 December 2012
- On Saramago, volume 6 of Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies