José Saramago

Death with Interruptions, published in Britain as Death at Intervals, is a novel written by José Saramago. First released in 2005 in its original Portuguese, the novel was translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa in 2008. The novel centers around death as both a phenomenon, and as an anthropomorphized character. …

Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of …

De stad der blinden is een roman van de Portugese schrijver en Nobelprijswinnaar José Saramago. Het verhaal beschrijft een massale reactie van de mensheid op een fenomeen waarin het plotseling het vermogen te zien wordt ontnomen en hoe beschaafde mensen in noodsituaties kunnen degenereren tot dierlijk gedrag. Het boek …