Download eBooks by author Jose Saramago. Guaranteed best prices, direct download! Jose Saramago eBooks Epub and PDF format Jose Saramago eBooks. EBooks found: 36. The Myths of Liberal Zionism. Yitzhak Laor & Jose Saramago. Verso, January 2017. ISBN: 281 Format: ePub.
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'A Harvest book.' Originally published in English in Great Britain in 1997 by The Harvill Press'A city is struck by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' The first man to succumb sits in his car, waiting for the light to change. He is taken to an eye doctor, who does not know what to make of the phenomenon - and soon goes blind himself.' 'The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards under instructions to shoot anyone trying to escape.
Inside, the criminal element among the blind holds the rest captive: food rations are stolen, women are raped. The compound is set ablaze, and the blind escape into what is now a deserted city, strewn with litter and unburied corpses.' 'The only eyewitness to this nightmare is the doctor's wife, who faked blindness in order to join her husband in the camp. She guides seven strangers through the barren streets.
The bonds within this oddly anonymous group - the doctor, the first blind man and his wife, the old man with the black eye patch, the girl with dark glasses, the boy with no mother, and the dog of tears - are as uncanny as the surrounding chaos is harrowing. Told with compassion, humor, and lyricism, Blindness is a stunning exploration of loss and disorientation in the modern world, of man's will to survive against all odds.' -BOOK JACKET. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-06-21 22:12:43 Boxid IA118613 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City San Diego, CA Curatenote shipped Donor Edition 1st Harvest ed.
Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago SummaryA man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hearao Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him and what cargo it was found to be carrying the reader will discover as this short narrative unfolds. And at the end it will be clear that what night appear to be a children's fable is in fact a wry, witty Philosophical Tale that would not have displeased Voltaire or Swift.
The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekhov SummaryIn the stories by Anton Chekhov there is no seriousness of the plot, as in Dostoevsky’s novels, but together with simplicity and funny side of everyday life Chekhov’s characters are not less dramatic or deep. However, polished sarcasm is not an obstacle for Chekhov to show his characters in a warm and realistic way. There is no grotesque of Saltikov-Schedrin who turns people into images; we can recognise an ordinary modern man on the pages of Chekhov’s stories.
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin SummaryA collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters. Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction-and, through the lens of literature, gives us a way of exploring the world around us.
In 'Freedom,' Le Guin notes: 'Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now. To other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.
We'll need writers who can remember freedom-poets, visionaries-realists of a larger reality.' Le Guin was one of those authors and inWords Are My Matter she gives us just that: a vision of a better reality, fueled by the power and might and hope of language and literature.
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Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin SummaryA collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters. Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K.
Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction—and, through the lens of literature, gives us a way of exploring the world around us. In “Freedom,” Le Guin notes: “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom—poets, visionaries—realists of a larger reality.” Le Guin was one of those authors and in Words Are My Matter she gives us just that: a vision of a better reality, fueled by the power and might and hope of language and literature.
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