Jose saramago pronunciation
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“…The end of one journey is simply the start of another. You have to see what you missed the first time, see again what you already saw, see in springtime what you saw in summer, in daylight what you saw at night… You have to go back to the footsteps already taken, to go over them again or add fresh ones alongside them.” wrote José Saramago in his book Viagem a Portugal (“Journey to Portugal”, 1981).
The exhibit “Back to the footsteps already taken prepared by the Saramago Foundation to mark the centenary of the birth of Portugal’s most distinguished novelist (1922-2022), takes up the writer’s challenge – we embark on a ‘journey’ through José Saramago’s literary biography to revisit his literary, cultural and social legacy.
The exhibition is part of the celebration of World Portuguese Language Day, which falls on 5 May.
Text selection and editing: Carlos Reis and Fernanada Costa
Graphic design: André Letria
Translation into Polish: Anika Danielczuk, Maja Olszewska and Justyna Żmijewska
Organisation of the e Portuguese novelist (1922–2010) In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Sousa and the second or paternal family name is Saramago. José de Sousa SaramagoGColSEGColCa (European Portuguese:[ʒuˈzɛðɨˈsozɐsɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."[1] His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today"[2] and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon",[3] while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."[4] More than two million copies of S José Saramago, 70s ©FJS Archive/Reserved Rights I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village located in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the river Almonda, some hundred kilometers northeast of Lisbon. My parents were called José de Sousa and Maria da Piedade. José de Sousa would also have been my name if the civil registry official, on his own initiative, had not added the nickname for which my father's family was known in the village: Saramago. (It should be clarified that saramago is a spontaneous herbaceous plant, whose leaves, in those times, in times of need, served as food in the kitchen of the poor). Only when I was seven, when I had to present an identification document at primary school, did it become known that my full name was José de Sousa Saramago… However, this was not the only identity problem I was faced with in the baby crib. Although I came into the world on November 16, 1922, my official documents state that I was born two days later, at 18: it was thanks to this small fraud that the family es
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Autobiography