Who Is Jose Saramago and Why You Should Care
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2016
- Saramago was a very recent find for me and I really wanted to spread the word about his work.
Books mentioned:
Blindness
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Seeing
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Gotta love Saramago! He is truly one of my favourite writers. Having the privilege to be able to read his books in Portuguese is something I'll never take for granted.
Yes, You is correct. But, Saramago, is better more that this, your only way writter is singular, this is not only great Portuguese Writer, but is the new writter world is open new writter with model that choose the words as who choose the parts of the "head broken"...kkkkkk i sorry my english, i like this writter without translater and this my way have many problems with americans people, but i like. I see you not american norte. ooHHHH now is bad, "american norte", i will like say nort. this bad grammar. in the end, i like say or i say like, that Saramago is only writter of the world that no "self import" or "no self past import with new order" as never somebody think make different of the traddicional....Understand. Please, Help-me. Transate-me for good english my dear Margarida de Sousa. I believe that you this Brazilian? good comentary, better, is excalaty. Happy birthday ...KKKK I FORGET "PARABÉNS" IN ENGLISH....i love Saramago. I love this video.
really? do you speak portuguese?
My favorite novel by José Saramago is 'Death with Interruptions'. It begins with the sentence "The following day, no one died." and it's about an unnamed country in an unknown time in which nobody dies anymore. From there on it's a meditation on life and death, and the equilibrium made by both. 'Baltasar and Blimunda' was also one of my favorites.
+Writing to Eratos Well Death without Interruptions sounds very interesting to me too. His concepts are wonderful.
As Intermitências da Morte (I love that title in portuguese) is not only my favorite Saramago book, but my favorite book at all.
It’s honestly the only book of his that I I have read and I definitely loved that book!! It is what you said and I will explain it a bit more. Death falls in love and stops doing his job. So it’s about the trouble with what happens when death doesn’t occur in the world.
I just got a copy of this and I am excited to read it.
I loved Blindness! It was the first book I read by him and the writing style did not bother me at all, it just added to the intensity and urgency of the story. I plan on reading more books by this author.
Hey there! I'm portuguese :)
Do you know why Saramago writes the way he does? In case you don't, it's because he writes like we would speak. That's the explanation I got at school. If you're speaking, your pauses only depend in time and, therefore, it only makes sense to use " , " and " . ". It makes lot of sense to me and I may apply it in the future if I even write a book to publish!
I've never read those books! Thank you for sharing!!
+Clara That is pretty cool!
ahh! great to know! thanks!!
I love Jose Saramago. Read several of his books including Blindess and Seeing. Seeing seems so relevant during these current times in the USA. Thank you for your video presentation.
I think he's a fantastic author!
Portuguese here!
Saramago is my favourite writer; these are the books that I've read of him in order of preference:
1- Ensaio sobre a cegueira - Blindness
2- Homem Duplicado - The Double
3- Memorial do Convento - Baltasar and Blimunda
4- Intermitências da morte - Death with Interruptions
Currently reading Ensaio sobre a lucidez - Seeing
Glad to see people from other countries enoying our only literature Nobel prize winner
This is an excellent video, i need to read these books. Thank you for such a thoughtful review.
Good morning, I'm Portuguese and it's always a pleasure when I hear about Saramago. His career started here in my village.
SophieThank you for that analysis.I am currently reading "Things," in Portuguese.It is very dystopian.
Thanks again.
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Wow, sounds amazing! Thanks for a really interesting review 😊 Am going to buy the books
Diana Devlin begin with "All the Names" or "Double" and be an eternal Saramago fan
“Death with interruptions” was a great book. Just found your channel. Good video. Subscribed.
These books sound really good and interesting. Will hopefully pick one up soon :)
I've read all these books. They are a treasure
I've never heard someone describe Saramago books in a more appealing way! And just judging by the references you make in this video, I really think I'm going to enjoy your channel!
He is great fun and I hope that you do enjoy the rest of my content! 😊
He is one of my favorite authors
It had been a long time since I last heard the New Zealand accent ( at least it sounds like it -lol). Got to live in ChristChurch in 2006. Just swang by to pay homage to this great writer. Read most of his novels and it dragged me into a world of his own, one that explores language, reflection. Really nice video this one. I'm a translator and as a means of studying the language(I'm Brazilian) also read his novels in English. Really outstanding piece of translation, true to the original work.
Saramago is on my top writers list. His ability to tackle delicate matters in such an ironic and sarcastic way, aligned with his views of the world, make his books a masterpiece.
Thank you for the review, I recently purchased "Blindness" and planning to read it very soon 😁
He's my favorite writer!!!! "Blindness" was the first book of his I've read, "Seeing" was the second. Now I'm reading "O evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo", I don't know how was the title translated to English (I'm Brazilian, therefore I read it in the original language). My favourite so far is "Cain"
He is fantastic, I think that is The Gospel According to Jesus Christ in English. I've not yet read Cain :)
Isabella Sato after many years of his death I finally bought “Cain”, two days...
kkkkkkkk, Cain is wonderfull. I believe "O evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo" can to be "This only book of the new testament that writter by Yeshua"...in truth is my translater "O evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo" of the portuguese to portuguese. Saramago it was beautifully ironic (currect, exist Ironic in english?) with this the title
I am currently writing a scientific paper about him and collecting material. May I know what you liked about it?
We meet again! That is beautiful. Cheers
I'm not sure what you mean but thank you for commenting!
Fantastic books!!! Even through I found them really difficult to understand! Anything is symbolic and I struggle to completely get the meaning!
I only read like "cain" which u loved but I just bought a "Balthazar and blimunda "and" manual of painting and calligraphy " and" the death of Recardi Reis "
Great vid, the books sound really interesting, definitely going to check them out.
+Rosie Reads Yay! Let me know your thoughts. :)
Great video, definitely going to read theses books when I get a chance...lucky for me I currently live in brazil and can get them in portuguese!
Just as a minor correction, in portuguese a more correct pronounciation is Joe-Zay.
+MarcDyllan That's great. Let me know what you think of them and I'm a bit jealous as the writing is lovely and I expect the Portuguese is lovelier still. And thank you, that is much appreciated.
Probably most poetic of his book for me is The Year of Death of Ricardo Reis.
Great talk. You've got a very appealing UA-cam "persona", if you will. Keep it up.
I'm about 4/5ths done with Blindness. My reaction? No characters, everyone/everything is a transparent metaphor. And it's completely humorless. Kafka used to laugh hysterically when he would read his stuff to his pals. Cause it's FUNNY! Absurdity is funny. Relentless horror sans irony, sans humor, sans CHARACTERS? ugh
Saramago is in absolutely no way humorless.
You should read the book Death with Interruptions by him. For me is definitely one of the Jose Saramago´s best books.
It does look wonderful, it's on my wishlist. :)
amazing
It'll be awesome if instead of a section you would read the whole book. I loved "Blindness" currently reading "Seeing," and I would very much enjoy the audiobook read by you.
Thank you, I really love his writing.
I am from Portugal and you should read the book Baltasar and Blimunda by him, its the best book ever 😍
I will definitely have to look that one up. :)
@@SophieIslington A peculiar love story that takes place in the 18th century.
Great video. I really like how you put your thoughts on the books and I really appreciate the bio on the author in the beginning. A small note: I’m brazilian so I speak portuguese and to pronounce Jose you don’t need to make de J sound like a R like we have to if we are pronouncing spanish names. The portuguese J sounds like the english J.
Thank you. I read Blindness a year or so ago. Your intoduction told me new things about the writer. He is wonderfully bleak. The quishy miment in Blindness are so very distasteful! You are so right to praise his writing. He is unflinching as was Hubert Selby.
I began a collection of Jose Saramago's novels, though I currently own just three of his novels: Blindness, Cain, and The Elephant's Journey. I definitely want to read something by him, though, for I am making my way through the works of writers who have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. I really like the overview, for it really helps! -Josh
+Literary Gladiators I'm glad that this video was useful for you! Do you have any particular recommendations from your Nobel Prize reading thus far?
Indeed it was. From what I read, Nobel Prize winning writers that I have read and enjoyed include John Steinbeck, Hermann Hesse, Saul Bellow, and you should check out Voices From Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize last year. There are so many great poets as well, such as Milosz, Heaney, Yeats, Transtromer, Neruda, and I am sure I am leaving names out, but I plan to get to most or all of them.
@@LiteraryGladiators You should check out Nabokov. He didn't win the Prize, but he's so great that I have no idea why he didn't receive it.
I came to read Seeing after it was referenced by Zizek somewhere along the way. From what page is that quote from seeing?
Great review! I'm also a fan of his works. I loved 'Blindness' and it is one amazing novel that shows what humans are made off. It would be great if you could review 'Hang Woman' by K R Meera.
I've never heard of it! I'll look it up.
I'm just finishing Blindness now - reading it for a book club. I was reluctant to read it, all I knew about it was what I'd heard about the film (which I haven't seen, but didn't sound appealing), but I'm glad I did. I actually find his style quite engrossing - the run-on sentences, with very few paragraph breaks, kind of pulls you along. Felt like sort of a cross between Cormac McCarthy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai. I will check out more of his books, though I might need a bit of a breather!
Just wondered one thing about this one; what do you think about his attitude towards women in this book? Occasionally he would say something that sounded pretty questionable. I took it with a pinch of salt, partly because I felt the narrator seemed to be a character themselves, and partly because I thought he might have been being sarcastic or ironic. What do you think?
I don't think Saramago had some of his characters brutalize women due to his purported misogyny. In fact, he often strikes me as the type of guy who would support the feminist cause. It's just that he wanted to highlight the brutality of life and how human beings can be utter assholes to one another. He was a self-proclaimed pessimist. And yes, any seemingly questionable comment on women is indeed ironic, perhaps owing to his blatant cynicism regarding human nature (in its original sense, not the bastardized definition that some ascribe to that word nowadays).
Frank Feldman I wonder whether one can go through any of his work without being absorbed in a kind of Comic trance. I wonder whether trance is the right word though.
I am definitely going to pick up one of those to books. (Blindness or seeing) however I was wondering a couple of things. Are those particular books satirical on religion? And is it possible to read Seeing before blindness as that one intrigues me more? Also thank you a lot for this video, it sounds like a author I could really enjoy. :)
+Mosope Ajegs I wouldn't say that the satire of religion plays any great role in either of these books, however there is a distinct lack of religion in them. I think that yes, you can read the books singularly though each one enriches the other. I would say that reading Seeing first would be of no real consequence in terms of the enjoyment of that book.
That's my pleasure. I'm glad to have helped out!
I enjoyed this quite a lot.Barring The Lives of Things, The Note Book and Journey to Portugal I have read all other books by Jose Saramago.Except, perhaps, Skylight all his books are magnificent.In quite a few of his books he introduces a calamity and then shows us how different people react and respond differently.Range of these reactions and responses is incredibly vast.My top three books by Saramago are The History of the Seige of Lisbon,The Double and The Cave.All his books are quite dense but also intellectually rewarding.In almost all his books one comes across a dog(Found in The Cave,Dog of Tears in Blindness ). Someone could/should write an article about dogs in novels of Saramago.On internet I read about books poems of Saramago but probably none of these is translated into English.
What is your favorite book of his?
Have you ever read the book that gave him the noble?is amazing
I don't know if I'm being silly but I thought the Nobel wasn't a prize attached to any title?
You are right. I said that cause in that time people were saying that he won the prize and that title would be enough to won it. Is an amazing book with real facts about portuguese history and portuguese real characters. But the character blimunda is maybe the best and the most lovely ever.
Great man, Saramago. Happy His Birthday (11/16/16!) ... Nice review here ....
Oh! Happy birthday Saramago. :)
Reading "Blindness", and thought "Cain" was hilarious.
I've not read Cain, glad to hear that it is entertaining!
Im the one of fun of his historical novel
Sorry.. what ?
Oohh, sorry, first reply comentary of the Margarida de Sousa.
Thank You So Much. I want writter more for you. hum.....but is possible you not understand All. in the end, thank you! Please, make the video about singular way of the Saramaga in the day Nobel. Different of the all writters.
I hope that you understand.
@@amtruth Escreva em português, o mesmo.
Então eu, ou outra pessoa, pode traduzir a mensagem para você. Saudações!
Bruno simoes Saramago was awarded Nobel prize on account of his remarkable contribution to literature. Not for a single work. As in the case of Magic Mountain in recent times.
As far as I know Saramago was not an atheist he just always had a kind of quarrel with god through his books. He was not content with god's creation, kind of.
Yes, Saramago was atheist. In this video he said he was an atheist. ua-cam.com/video/lMbq6vTg7aM/v-deo.html
I don’t want to be picky but it’s zhu-zeh suh-ruh-mah-goo (sorry for my rubbish attempt at phonetics)
Thanks!
She was pretty close though. The only weird thing, or the thing she "erred" in, was the diphthong, in sah-rah-"mei"-goh, when diphthongs do not actually really even exist in spanish or portuguese really.
Read Jesus Christ and All The Names. Both good. All The Names leaves a lasting impression.
Go to Goggle translate to find out how the Portuguese J is pronounced. You will be surprised, Portuguese is not Spanish.
Never like it. It is lacking any value of any sort.