by José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa
https://msarki.tumblr.com/post/156528723823/death-with-interruptions-by-jos%C3%A9-saramagoDeath With Interruptions fails in its embellished and sentimental concept of love conquering death. A silly book, at first look, ripe with satire and unflattering looks into religion and laws of the state. A p...
bookshelves: published-1999, translation, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, nobel-laureate, portugal, paper-read, lit-richer, autumn-2015, halloween-2015, philosophy, absurdist, existentialism Read from September 28 to October 10, 2015 Description: On the first day of the new year, no one dies....
Edit Marzo 2015Todavía sigo acordandome de lo excelente que es este libro... sobre todo entre tanta cosa mala/regular que vengo leyendo XD EDIT: 4/11/2014Aprobéeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! En diciembre empiezo el desafío Saramago que me propuse: cinco libro a leer antes de marzo!FELICIDAD!!!!!! Lluvia de...
that was a damned good idea for a dystopian book that i haven't seen anywhere so far: death stops coming. what do you do?panic, for sure. thinking about what would happen in real life if this really was the case, i realized that i didn't need to. saramago writes a very weird prose, but he's extremel...
The dream of immortality has always fascinated humanity. The dream of eternal life has founded religions that changed the shape of the world. What if it were true? "The following day, no one died." So begins José Saramago's Death with Interruptions. In an unnamed small European country without any ...
I am not sure if I fully understood the book or not. I will say that it was one of the weirdest and most interesting ones I've read in a while... even if I didn't quite get the end. The last half was definitely my favorite.
Սկիզբը շատ լավն էր, բայց կեսից քաքի համը հանեց: Ոճի համար` 4 :)
I have read several other books by Saramago, i.e., Blindnesss and The Double. They are difficult to read because he writes very long paragraphs and the book sometimes loses something in the translation but reading them have always been rewarding experiences, in the end.This time, I don't think I wil...
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