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José Saramago

Portugal

About

Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate (1922–2010) known for his unconventional punctuation and grammatical style, which strips dialogue from quotation marks and blurs voices. His allegories use collective protagonists to examine political and moral crises.

Books on TheBookRoads

1
Blindness
An unexplained epidemic of "white blindness" strikes a city. The infected are herded into a quarantined asylum where society's structures rapidly collapse. Saramago's Nobel Prize-winning allegory of human vulnerability and moral failure.
1995 Portugal
2
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Saramago reimagines the life of Jesus, born from ordinary lust and guilt, who makes a deal with God and the Devil. The Portuguese government blocked the novel from a European literary prize, prompting Saramago's permanent move to the Canary Islands.
1991 Portugal
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