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Winner of the José Saramago Literary AwardIn an unnamed Portuguese village, against a backdrop of severe rural poverty, two generations of men and women struggle with love, violence, death, and—perhaps worst of all—the inescapability of fate. A pair of twins conjoined at the pinky, a 120-year-old wise man, a shepherd turned cuckold by a giant, and even the Devil himself make up the unforgettably oddball cast of The Implacable Order of Things. As these lost souls come together and drift apart, ... Read more
Published simultaneously around the world in six languages, this second volume of Autodafe examines the idea of the untouchable. As Christian Salmon puts it, For an artist, the untouchable is what stands in the way of creation and simultaneously guides it. Contributors, including Bei Dao, Lars Gustafsson, Rolando Sanchez Mejias, and Jose Saramago, use this subject for a broad discussion of art and politics.
HELL AND BACK offers a wide range of wonderfully challenging, always provocative reflections on literature and the art of writing. The lead essay on Dante sets the tone for the entire collection: erudite, contemplative, witty, and meticulous, it constantly offers new insights into The Inferno. Mixing biographical background with astute literary detection, Parks writes also of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Henry Green, Salman Rushdie, Jose Saramago, Christina Stead, and a dozen others. ... Read more
In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both the triumphs and tensions of reading and writing today. Evaluating works by established authors Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, J.M. Coetzee, and José Saramago, as well as emerging writers like Naomi Klein, Javier Cercas, and Chimamanda Adichie, Persky also showcases a remarkable group of reporters - Steve Coll, Dexter Filkins, and Rajiv Chandrasekaran - who have written essential ... Read more
“Tavares has no right to be writing so well at the age of 35. One feels like punching him!”—José SaramagoContinuing Tavares’s award-winning “Kingdom” series (begun in Jerusalem, winner of the Saramago Prize), Joseph Walser’s Machine recounts a life of bizarre routines and patterns. Routine humiliation at a factory; routine maintenance of the world’s most esoteric collection; and the most important routine of all: the operation of a mysterious machine on a factory floor. Yet all of Joseph ... Read more
Fuente: Wikipedia. P?ginas: 46. Cap?tulos: Alcaldes de Portugal, Comunistas de Portugal, Diputados de Portugal, Eurodiputados de Portugal, Gobernantes de Portugal, Ministros de Portugal, Socialistas de Portugal, José Saramago, Francisco Xavier da Silva Pereira, Marqués de Pombal, Afonso Costa, Manuela Ferreira Leite, M?rio Soares, Juan Alfonso de Alburquerque, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, José Francisco Corrêa da Serra, ?lvaro Cunhal, Miguel Portas, Mem de S?, Francisco Louç?, Oct?vio Pato, José ... Read more
Fuente: Wikipedia. P?ginas: 154. Cap?tulos: Actores de Portugal, Directores de cine de Portugal, Directores de teatro de Portugal, Directores de televisi?n de Portugal, Escritores de Portugal, Escultores de Portugal, Fot?grafos de Portugal, Grabadores de Portugal, M?sicos de Portugal, Pintores de Portugal, José Saramago, Manuel Pereira, Fernando Pessoa, Nuno Bettencourt, Luis Filipe Teixeira, José de Guimar?es, Ernesto Canto da Maia, Maria de Medeiros, Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Agustina ... Read more
Fuente: Wikipedia. P?ginas: 134. Cap?tulos: Etnograf?a de Andaluc?a, Fiestas de Andaluc?a, Hijo Predilecto de Andaluc?a, Medios de comunicaci?n de Andaluc?a, Organizaciones de Andaluc?a, Religi?n en Andaluc?a, Vicente Aleixandre, Rafael Alberti, Francisco Ayala, Jorge Guillén, José Saramago, Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Felipe Gonz?lez, Camino de Santiago Moz?rabe, Mar?a Zambrano, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, Camino de Santiago de la Plata, Carnaval de Isla Cristina, Caminos de Santiago del Sur, Caso ... Read more
Fuente: Wikipedia. P?ginas: 113. Cap?tulos: Alumnado de la Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Catedr?ticos de la Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Doctores Honoris Causa de la Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Facultades y Escuelas de la Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Profesores de la Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, José Saramago, César Milstein, Lynn Margulis, Linus Pauling, Noam Chomsky, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Eugenio Morales Agacino, Mija?l Gorbachov, Biblioteca y Archivo de la UAM, Fernando ... Read more
The first decade of the twenty-first century was noteworthy for war, terror, religious revival, economic collapse, and a technological revolution that prompted countless critical responses and gave rise to a paradox: writing flourished, but reading declined. Reading the 21st Century investigates the urgent themes, major works, and crisis of reading in an era of instant communication. In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage ... Read more
The second installment in Tavares’s acclaimed “Kingdom” series.In a city not quite of any particular era, a distant and calculating man named Lenz Buchmann works as a surgeon, treating his patients as little more than equations to be solved: life and death no more than results to be worked through without the least compassion. Soon, however, Buchmann’s ambition is no longer content with medicine, and he finds himself rising through the ranks of his country’s ruling party . . . until a diagnosis ... Read more
The closely entwined histories of Portugal and Brazil remain key references for understanding developments-past and present-in either country. Accordingly, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil in relation to one another in this exploration of changing definitions of nationhood, subjectivity, and utopias in both cultures. Examining the two nations' shared language and histories as well as their cultural, social, and political points of divergence, Arenas pursues these definitive ... Read more
Fuente: Wikipedia. P?ginas: 440. Cap?tulos: Hijo Predilecto de Andaluc?a, Héroe del Trabajo Socialista, Héroes de la Federaci?n Rusa, Héroes de la Uni?n Soviética, Lord High Stewards, Orden del Imperio brit?nico, T?tulos honorarios del islam, Vicente Aleixandre, Rafael Alberti, Bill Gates, Francisco Ayala, Jorge Guillén, Nikolaus Pevsner, José Saramago, Yuri Gagarin, Frederick Grant Banting, Diana Rigg, Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Alec Guinness, I?sif Stalin, Kim Philby, Andrew Browne Cunningham, ... Read more
Fuente: Wikipedia. P?ginas: 105. Cap?tulos: Andalus?es, Beatos de Portugal, Di?spora portuguesa, Ejecutados de Portugal, Masones de Portugal, Premios Nobel de Portugal, Romanos de Hispania, Santos de Portugal, Suicidas de Portugal, Séneca, José Saramago, Adriano, Trajano, Fernando Pessoa, Paulo Orosio, Teodosio I el Grande, Cid Hiaya, Mart?n de Braga, Camilo Castelo Branco, Cayo Apuleyo Diocles, Librada, Inmigraci?n portuguesa en Brasil, Ibn Jald?n, Abd al-Rahman ibn Habid al-Siqlabi, M?rio de ... Read more
Fuente: Wikipedia. P?ginas: 405. Cap?tulos: Ateos de América, Ateos de Asia, Ateos de Europa, Ateos de la Antigua Grecia, Ateos de la Antigua Roma, Ateos jud?os, Te?logos ateos, Friedrich Nietzsche, Linus Torvalds, Karl Marx, Paul Dirac, Richard Stallman, Simone de Beauvoir, Woody Allen, José Saramago, Quino, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Paul Sartre, Umberto Eco, Hermann Joseph Muller, Sarah Bernhardt, Lord Byron, Mario Benedetti, Auguste Comte, Milan Kundera, Ernst Bloch, Plutarco El?as Calles, ... Read more
Twenty-one of the world's greatest writers offer a "liberating message about the power of language" (Bloomsbury Review)From the political to the aesthetic, Nobel Lectures collects the words of a quarter-century of literature laureates, offering a glimpse into the inspirations, motivations, and passionately held beliefs of some of the greatest minds in the world of literature.Literature laureates from England, China, France, Austria, South Africa, Egypt, Hungary, Trinidad, Germany, Portugal ... Read more
Praise for Claudia Pi?eiro's Thursday Night Widows: "An agile novel, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society.”—José Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature “A gripping story. The dystopia portrayed is an indictment not solely of an assassin but of Argentina’s class structure and the willful blindness of its petty bourgeoisie.”—The Times Literary Supplement “A fine morality tale which explores the dark places societies enter when they place material comfort before ... Read more
"An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"—José Saramago, Nobel Prize winner The English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves! “Pi?eiro’s clever U.S. debut.. . illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11.”—Publishers Weekly “Pi?eiro is particularly skilful at exposing the social forces undermining Argentine society, and the fragility of personal relationships. We ... Read more
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