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Reviewed on January 1, 2011 | Spanish Books
This compilation of interview excerpts offers a panoramic, if patchy, view of the late Nobel Prize winner José Saramago's thoughts. Organized in thematic chapters-autobiography, literature, politics-the quotes usually don't take longer than half a page and are sometimes short aphorisms (e.g., "The future of the future is in the South"). The musings about his own work offer some insight on the role of the narrator/author and the scant use of punctuation in his novel...Log In or Sign Up to Read More