Hi all of you!! Well, I totally had forgotten about posting this week, but I remembered now so, I thought maybe it was a good idea to mention a little about one of my favourites writers, who unfortunately died this year, but also borned a November 16, 1922, I mean a week like this.
So, there are already two reasons to talk about this portuguese man who wrote lots of novels, poetry, tales and a touristic guide also. But probably his relevance is mainly because of two special books. One of them was very controvertial in his country and he decided to leave after he was not allowed to come into the Literary Prize of that year. The book I'm talking about is "Evangelio según Jesucristo" which is a fiction and alternative story about Jesus' life, an obviuos reason to get problems.
The other book, which was recently adapted to a movie was "Ensayo sobre la ceguera". This book is a great novel about a strange desease that affects all the population, It is, being more specific an epidemic white blindness who reveals how people can be in extreme conditions, but in adittion, do -based in that fictional fact- a critic about how is contemporary society, at least that's what I think and that's why I recommend it.
Anyway, he has been, next to people like Benedetti and Mercedes Sosa, one of the worst deaths of this year and I wanted to share what a shame was it for me to know, but I'm also glad because his legacy is too important and I'll always can read some of his books in order to learn something else about his perspective of life... What else can i say?? If you haven't read Saramago's books, a good one to begin is the little tale called "Cuento de una isla desconocida". I'm pretty sure you wouldn't regret after knowing this Nobel Prize winner!
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