Jose Saramago - самые популярные книги

Book DescriptionTertuliano 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 awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room...

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Amazon.comJosé Saramago is a master at pacing. Readers unfamiliar with the work of this Portuguese Nobel Prize winner would do well to begin with The Cave, a novel of ideas, shaded with suspense. Spare and pensive, The Cave follows the fortunes of an aging potter, Cipriano Algor, beginning...

Одна из самых скандальных книг XX в., переведенная на все европейские языки. Церковь окрестила ее "пасквилем на Новый Завет", поскольку фигура Иисуса лишена в ней всякой героики; Иисус - человек, со всеми присущими людям бедами и сомнениями, желаниями и ошибками.

Португальский писатель Жозе Сарамаго после блестящего писательского дебюта в 1947 году вдруг замолчал на десятилетия. Критики успели забыть о его существовании, причислив к жертвам салазаровской цензуры. Но после революции 1974 года Сарамаго публикует одно произведение за другим, каждый раз вызывая...

From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago are a passionate rediscovery of his own land. Setting off in his veteran motor car, Saramago wants to travel to Portugal, as well as through it: by making it his destination...

"A man went to knock at the king';s door and said, Give me a boat. The king';s house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone...

Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jose Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon. Nevertheless, he would return to the village throughout his childhood and...

First published in 1980, Saramago’s prizewinning novel Raised from the Ground follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family – poor, landless peasants not unlike the author’s own grandparents. Set in Alentejo, a southern province of Portugal known for its vast agricultural estates, Saramago...

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