5/29/2023 0 Comments Seeing saramago![]() ![]() ![]() The rain is pouring in torrents and the voters do not come. He not only narrates, he comments on his narration. Saramago’s position as narrator is detached. Seeing is an ironic narration by a narrator who is sometimes ‘I’ and sometimes ‘we.’ The chapters are short and without conventional direct discourse. This is a distinction that is sometimes undistinguished since it was never offered to many of the greatest writers and has been awarded too frequently more for unhappy political experiences than for merit. Throughout his career he has suffered the repressive atmosphere of the Portuguese political scene and now lives in the Canaries. He has since written several novels and plays, some of which have served as the basis of operas. After initial efforts in the form of one published and one unpublished novel, Saramago abandoned literature until the 70s when he began to write poetry and to work on papers as a critic. Saramago was born in 1922, struggled against the poverty of his background as the son of landless peasants who resettled in Lisbon to become part of the urban poor. ![]()
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