José Saramago

"The Tale of the Unknown Island" is a short story by Portuguese author José Saramago. It was published in Portuguese in 1997, and English in 1999.

Elefantin matka on José Saramagon kirjoittama teos, joka ilmestyi alkujaan portugalin kielellä 2008. Teoksen on suomentanut Sanna Pernu, ja suomennoksen on vuonna 2011 julkaissut Tammi. Elefantin matka on vuonna 2010 kuolleen portugalilaisen Nobel-kirjailijan José Saramangon toiseksi viimeinen romaani. Sen jälkeen …

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis is a 1984 novel by Portuguese novelist José Saramago, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in literature. It tells the story of the final year in the life of the title character, Ricardo Reis, one of the many heteronyms used by the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. In the novel, …

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 …

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 …

When King and Church exercise absolute power what happens to the dreams of ordinary people? In early eighteenth century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost a hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother …

The inspiration for the major motion picture "Enemy" starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Denis Villeneuve Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is …

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 …

Kertomus näkevistä on Nobel-palkitun kirjailijan José Saramagon teoksen Kertomus sokeudesta sisarteos.

Jeesuksen Kristuksen evankeliumi on portugalilaisen José Saramagon vuonna 1998 ilmestynyt romaani. Teos ilmestyi suomeksi vuonna 1998 Erkki Kirjalaisen käännöksenä, jonka Tammi julkaisi Keltaisessa kirjastossa. Alkuteos herätti ilmestyessään suuren kohun, sillä sen katsottiin loukkaavan katolisen kirkon oppeja. …