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...certain place that doesn’t happen somewhere else, or anywhere else. And that’s how I look at place in fiction. It always interests me that what happens in one place doesn’t happen somewhere else. There’s this book by Saramago, a recent novel, “Death With Interruptions.” He writes about a town in which nobody dies. So, that’s a pretty extreme example of something happening that doesn’t happen anywhere else...
...campaign to encourage the Barcelona city government, which oversees the zoo, to transfer Susi to a safari-type institution where she would have more space and would be able to join a herd. But their efforts received little notice until they let it be known that both José Saramago, the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese novelist, and Sofia, Queen of Spain, had interceded on Susi's behalf. For her part, the Queen, who has long championed animal rights and is herself a vegetarian, forwarded the organizations' letter to the city government, urging them to consider it. Saramago wrote a plea...
...Based on a 1995 novel by Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago, the movie imagines that, one by one, nearly all the inhabitants of an unnamed city have been rendered sightless. Things don't go dark for them, they go searingly, opaquely light - "I feel like I'm swimming in milk," says the first man to be struck with the disease - so it's called "the white blindness." Soon the streets are flooded with people violently, helplessly scrounging for food. The only person who may have escaped the plague is the wife (Julianne Moore) of an ophthalmologist (Mark Ruffalo). When the government...
...Latin American neighbors. But Europe's legions of Castro admirers, from politicians to artists, are increasingly siding with Payá, a phenomenon that could dampen European enthusiasm for travel to Cuba, which is often driven by the island's chic revolutionary cachet. Portugal's Nobel-prizewinning novelist, José Saramago, once a Castro admirer, wrote in a stinging editorial last month that "this is as far as I go" with Cuba's revolution. The E.U. has also postponed negotiation of a badly needed economic aid package for Cuba. At the same time, Payá - who like most Cuban dissidents opposes...
...that the Nobel Prize is really not such a big deal and a conclusion that portrays literature as a heroic struggle for the future of the human race. None of this is very original, and in this case it does not gel together very well. Past Nobel Lectures like Saramago's, Garcia Marquez's and Faulkner's have done many of these things better and more coherently. But originality and style are minor points. It's the message that bothers me, commonplace...