Jose Saramago Quotes
Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.
Saramago, José. "José Saramago - Biographical." Les Prix Nobel 1998, edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, 1999.
In American History wars have been one of the major factors in breaking down cultural gender barriers and sexism. This was true even of the Civil War. At the time a married woman had no legal say in how family finances were utilized. All her property was the husband’s to manage as he saw fit. The war forced families to rethink and rearrange the roles of women. The reference to “Rothschild” was to the great financial family of men who were regarded as the best financiers in the world.
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".
