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You this, you that, you blah-blah-blah... So there's no love for the 2nd person here? The annoying 'you'? It can be fun sometimes.

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Because Sofia asked :) I found this book very unusual in the context of Saramago's oeuvre, perhaps because I'm better versed in his 'parable period', i.e. his work after Blindness. The Stone Raft has geographical references, unlike The Cave, All The Names, Blindness or Seeing, for...

I think the information was unknown, but available to public. I read in the newspapers that an insurance company had access to the documents, I believe back in the '70s. And the Der Spiegel newspaper published the documents three days after Mr. Grass came out publicly. That was a bit quick...

At the moment I have very little reason to put books and comic books on the same level. However, I hope that one day comics will produce literary masterpieces on a regular basis. These already exist, but they are scarce: Watchmen (not 'The' there :) ), The Sandman, V For Vendetta, From Hell (the...

In The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis there's a special treat there for Borges fans :) To me Saramago is Borges if Borges had ever bothered to write novels instead of short fiction.

:D I take it it's your first Saramago book. I have read nine so far, six just this year. His style only became natural on the fourth book, and now I can't get enough of it. You'll notice that because of his style, there's hardly any blank space left on the page; I like that, it gives me...

Hypocrisy Unfortunately there is no other word for it. But tell me, does it really bother you that much? Unless you are German, why should it matter to you? Mr. Grass has understandably upset German people because his work and his moral posturing directly condemn the German people and...

Fascinating Writer Mr. Mahfouz' death saddened me very much. Unfortunately I'm incapable of finding most of his work in Portugal: either it's out of print or it hasn't been translated yet. I read Arabian Nights and Days by chance, and his fantastic world held me in thrall until the last page...

I read The Remains of the Day a few months and enjoyed it very much! Ishiguro imbued Stevens with a lot of humanity and idiosyncracies; he's such a naive, repressed, pitiful man, incapable of understanding what was going on around him in the mansion, and concoting romantic fantasies from...

Did they have yellow covers? I remember them very well, I've bought quite a few of them. I think they're still around in bookshops here in Portugal, although the more pricey Penguin editions are taking over, as well as the Wordsworth Classic editions. In all events, Dover Thrift Editions is...

Unfortunately no book has yet made me shed tears, but Crime and Punishment came pretty close: Raskolnikov's confession to Sonya was so beautifully written that I felt the character's pain in every word.

I bought José Saramago's The Stone Raft a week ago: it's already read :)

Hello! I'm just another reader who's come here to discuss books :)

Anything by Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll.