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José de Sousa Saramago GColSE GColCa (European Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ðɨ ˈsozɐ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (original title: O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo, 1991) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago.It is a fictional re-telling of Jesus Christ's life, depicting him as a flawed, humanised character with passions and doubts.
Denis Villeneuve directed a Canadian thriller feature film, Enemy in 2013, with a screenplay adapted by Javier Gullón from this novel. Set in Toronto, it stars Jake Gyllenhaal in a dual role as the physically identical men Adam and Anthony, Isabella Rossellini as Adam's mother, Mélanie Laurent as the professor Adam's girlfriend Mary, and Sarah Gadon as the actor Anthony's wife Helen.
An article in the Oxonian suggests several literary influences for Saramago's work as a whole and The Lives of Things in particular. Reviewer Andrew Fleming indicates that Saramago's work has some things in common with magical realist Gabriel García Márquez. However, "There is a lot more going on in Saramago’s prose, attitudes that would ...
"The Tale of the Unknown Island" (Portuguese: O conto da ilha desconhecida) is a short story by Portuguese author José Saramago. It was published in Portuguese in 1997, and in English translation by Margaret Jull Costa in 1999.
All the Names (Portuguese: Todos os nomes) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago, the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel was written in 1997, and Margaret Jull Costa 's 1999 English translation of it won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize .
Cain is the last novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago.The book was first published in 2009. [1] In an earlier novel, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Saramago retold the main events of the life of Jesus Christ, as narrated in the New Testament, presenting God as the villain.
Manual of Painting and Calligraphy (Portuguese: Manual de Pintura e Caligrafia) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago. [1] It was first published in 1977. [2] An English translation by Giovanni Pontiero was published in 1993. The plot of the novel involves H., who paints the industrialist S. and has an affair with his secretary.