Saramago Livros: Jose

If you have ever opened a book by José Saramago, you know the initial shock. The paragraphs stretch for pages. Dialogue is not marked by dashes or quotation marks, but by capital letters and commas. The sentences flow like a river that refuses to be dammed.

His books are not easy beach reads. They are hurricanes. They will leave you dizzy, angry, and profoundly more human. jose saramago livros

But if you surrender to the current, you realize the genius. Saramago does not write to be comfortable; he writes to be transformative. If you have ever opened a book by

Have you read Blindness ? Did you finish The Gospel ? Let me know in the comments below—just don’t expect me to use quotation marks to reply. “The world is not perfect. It needs to be corrected. The first step is to recognize that we are flawed.” — José Saramago The sentences flow like a river that refuses to be dammed