L'Aveuglement est un roman de l'écrivain portugais et prix Nobel de littérature José Saramago. Il est paru en 1995 et aborde les conséquences de la cécité de l'ensemble de l'humanité. Ce roman a été adapté au cinéma en 2008 pour le film Blindness de Fernando Meirelles.
Dans l'administration kafkaïenne de l'état civil, les vivants comme les morts sont des fiches archivées. Employés sans visages, tâches absurdes et répétitives, hiérarchie toute puissante qui brime l'individu, tout participe d'un univers concentrationnaire et déshumanisant, brillamment transcrit par l'auteur portugais …
«No dia seguinte ninguém morreu». Que a morte tem as suas extravagancias, já todos nós sabíamos. Mas que se cansasse de exercer a sua principal actividade, nunca nos passou pela cabeça! Imagine que, de um momento para o outro, num certo país, as pessoas deixam de morrer. Estarão os líderes e os habitantes desse país …
L'Évangile selon Jésus-Christ est un roman de l'écrivain portugais et prix Nobel de littérature José Saramago, paru en 1991. C'est une relecture iconoclaste des évangiles en les écrivant depuis le point de vue de Jésus Christ. Le livre suit la chronologie des évangiles, néanmoins l'enfance et l'adolescence de Jésus y …
An old potter, his daughter and her son-in-law, after a crisis in the artisan industry, undertake a new strategy in their sales then of them depend not to be absorbed by the great city that grow excessive near its rustic town simultaneously, martial, the son-in-law, employee like permanent watchman of the commercial …
Le Dieu manchot est un roman historique de l'écrivain portugais José Saramago paru en 1982.
The Stone Raft is a novel by Nobel Prize in Literature-winning Portuguese writer José Saramago. It was written in 1986, and was translated into English in 1994. The basic premise of the novel is that the Iberian Peninsula has broken off the European continent and is floating freely in the Atlantic Ocean; bureaucrats …
The History of the Siege of Lisbon is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago, first published in 1989. It tells the story of a proofreader and the story of the Siege of Lisbon as it both is and is not told in the book he is charged with correcting. It discusses many themes including language, history and …