José Saramago

若泽·萨拉马戈

Lifespan
1922–2010
Nationality
Portuguese
Role
Novelist
Books
1

Biography

Portuguese novelist and 1998 Nobel laureate in Literature. In Blindness and Baltasar and Blimunda he treated civilizational collapse and tyranny as fable, with the long, nearly punctuation-free sentences that became his signature.

Central Ideas

  • Blindness as a thought experiment in civilizational collapse
  • 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • Allegory as a way to treat institutions and power

Books

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