Skylight
A Portugal, Literature, European Literature book. no one has an obligation to love anyone else, but we are...
Pilar del Rio, president of José Saramago Foundation writes in the novel's introduction that in 1953 31-year old José Saramago sent a bundle of typewritten papers to a publishing house for their consideration. The manuscript was ignored, not returned and lost to time for 36 years. Meanwhile Saramago would go on to world recognition and would become a 1998 Nobel Prize recipient in literature.When the lost novel was discovered in 1989 the publishing house respectfully asked if they could publish it and Saramago said no, not in his lifetime and collected what would have been his first novel. The initial rejection had been so painful that Saramago, while writing poems, journals and essays, would not write another novel for 30 years. Upon his death in 2010, the wheels were set in motion to publish Skylight, "the book lost and found in time". The English version of Skylight, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, tells the daily-life stories of ordinary families who live in a fading apartment building in the Lisbon of the early 1950s, men and women who are struggling to make ends meet. José Saramago would become a master of character portrayal; Skylight gives...
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- Pages: 299 pages
- ISBN: / 9780544090
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Of course it does. I cant make judgments using other peoples ideas! Theres the sticking point! Youre forgetting that other people have their own ideas about good and evil, ideas that might be better than yours ... If everyone thought like you, we would never get anywhere. We need rules, we need laws! Jos Saramago, Skylight // no one has an obligation to love anyone else, but we are all under an obligation to respect each other. According to this logic, Saramago considered Jos Saramago, Skylight // Penetrating the walls and rising to the stars, the music continued, the slow movement of the Eroica Symphony, crying out against pain, crying out against the injustice of mans mortality. Jos Saramago, Skylight //
E ora se ne stava l, nellorto di Silvestre, a fumare una sigaretta, incurante della vita... Sembro Romeo nel giardino dei Capuleti, pens. Manca solo la luna. Invece dellinnocente Giulietta abbiamo la navigata Ldia. Invece del dolce balcone, la finestra di un bagno. La scala demergenza invece della scala di seta. Si accese unaltra sigaretta.... Eis um livro que, segundo as palavras do prprio autor, poder ser ingnuo, mas no deixa de ser uma leitura agradvel e at profunda... Profunda porque a complexidade das personagens, o entrelaar do enredo e a seriedade das interrogaes de alguns dos personagens tornam o romence denso de interpretaes e interpelador do prprio leitor.Para alm... Nesta edio (Editorial Caminho SA, editora do Grupo Leya, 1 edio, Setembro 2011) est a seguinte indicao: "Claraboia, cuja redao Jos Saramago terminou a 5 de janeiro de 1953, consiste num datiloscrito de 319 pginas, assinado com o pseudnimo de "Honorato". A presente edio reproduz fielmente o original" ... simplesmente NO reproduz fielmente,...
