lived on the island of Lanzarote, Canary Islands, where he was exiled after the outcry and anger provoked by his novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ . But the career of José Saramago, probably the greatest European writer and one of the world's largest , was full of controversy for his uncompromising stances, the in terms of politics as religion.
Born in Azinhaga, inland Portugal, in 1922, Saramago's novel debuted in 1947 with a then repudiated by the same writer. The success came much later in 1980 with a land called Alentejo , but from that point on, every book has marked important milestones for the Portuguese and European literature, with masterpieces such as The Year of death of Ricardo Reis (1984), The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), Blindness (1995). Until his last novel, Cain, published in Italy a few weeks ago, among other things a short distance Papers from Lanzarote, extract of his diaries published in Italy in the spring.
disrespect for authority and deeply steeped in humanism, Saramago has invented a unique drama, made a sort of continuous inner dialogue in which no place more stringent constraints of punctuation . The speech flows in a continuous mass of words that take harmonica, page after page, the concrete structure of a superb building, and perhaps not easily accessible. As if Kafka's Castle - or the Tower of Babel, to cite biblical examples dear to Saramago - had been made sound and writing, in literary architecture of up to take on a corporation.
Because the figure of the writer is also a constant renewal of the human, in a polemic with the official religion that has its roots in antiquity. Almost for the Nobel Prize in 1998, with his page so full of epic grandeur , the Bible was somehow a book in which rival , literarily means. The vocation of his humanist reading of religious history is much deeper than a simple atheist, and focuses on the figure of Christ: "Before Jesus - writes in Notebooks - the men were already able to forgive, but no gods ". And Cain reading Saramago's almost sacrifice of Isaac, told from the perspective of the child, is both great literature and reports of violence incomprehensible.
Saramago, inscribed at the Portuguese Communist Party since the end of the Sixties, also took tough political positions. In his Blindness, footsteps of Plague by Camus, described totalitarian madness in the form of the disease view. But in Italy are known above all its controversy with Silvio Berlusconi, who among other things, the writer has called "a criminal". To the charge of defamation against the Knights a different edition of his notebook was rejected by Einaudi, the Mondadori group, and appeared for the types of Bollati Boringhieri.
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