Jose Saramago Quotes
There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.
Saramago, José. The Notebook. Translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Daniel Hahn, Verso, 2010.
In 1905, she and her husband—young, intellectual middle class, revolutionists from Moscow—escaped from the Czar’s secret police and emigrated to America where until 1917, she feared assassination by Czarist agents in America. After the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act were passed, she felt that all her utopian, communist dreams had been fulfilled--in America. But Russia, in many ways, were as bad then as in the days of the Czars. See {634475} and {634476} for her views on communism. Many of the American “leftist communists” were great admirers and lovers of America except for the legal and governmental support of segregation. When that went, America was their ideal.
José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE, 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" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant." Bloom and Saramago met when Saramago presented Bloom with an honorary degree from the University of Coimbra; according to Bloom: "A warm acquaintanceship ensued, marked by an exegetical disagreement concerning The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, which continued in correspondence and at a later meeting in New York City".
