Seeing pdf

José Saramago is a Portuguese writer and journalist born on November 16, 1922 in the Arinaga region (central Portugal) to a family of poor farmers. * He began his life as a locksmith, then as a journalist and translator, before devoting his time entirely to literature. He published his first novel, The Land of Sin, in 1947, and stopped writing for nearly twenty years. In 1966, he published his first poetry collection, Possible Poems. He has published about twenty books and is considered by critics to be one of the most important writers in Portugal thanks to his polyphonic novels, which retrace Portuguese history with a subtle irony close to the style adopted by Voltaire. - A member of the Portuguese Communist Party since 1959. - Received the International PEN Club Prize in 1982 and the Portuguese Camويسes Prize in 1995 - In October 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, for his novel The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - He was skeptical about the official account of the events September 11, 2001 - Saramago passed away on May 18, 2010

Seeing pdf by Jose Saramago

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to go out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o' clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent are blank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency is declared. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? A police superintendent is put on the case. What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinister. A singular novel from the author of Blindness.