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"He was the equal of Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile - he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy." (Harold Bloom)
"Saramago is a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to life." (John Updike)
"No candidate for a Nobel Prize has a better claim to lasting recognition than this novelist." (Edmund White)
"Saramago is a writer of formidable talent and extraordinary imagination." (La Repubblica)
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"Saramago is a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to life." (John Updike)
"No candidate for a Nobel Prize has a better claim to lasting recognition than this novelist." (Edmund White)
"Saramago is a writer of formidable talent and extraordinary imagination." (La Repubblica)
José Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922 in the small rural village of Azinhaga, he was in his fifties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, which included plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and over a dozen novels, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in June 2010.
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- EditoreHarvill Press
- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 1846554217
- ISBN 13 9781846554216
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine48
- Valutazione libreria
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