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In an unnamed country on the first day of the new year, people stop dying. Amid the general public, there is great celebration: flags are hung out on balconies and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity – eternal life. Death is on strike. Soon though, the residents begin to suffer. For several months undertakers face bankruptcy, the church is forced to reinvent its doctrine, and local ‘maphia’ smuggle those on the brink of death over the border where they can expire naturally.

Death does return eventually, but with a new courteous approach – delivering violet warning letters to her victims. But what can death do when a letter is unexpectedly returned?

Qué diablo de Dios es éste que, para enaltecer a Abel, desprecia a Caín. Si en El Evangelio según Jesucristo José Saramago nos dio su visión del Nuevo Testamento, en Caín regresa a los primeros libros de la Biblia. En un itinerario heterodoxo, recorre ciudades decadentes y establos, palacios de tiranos y campos de batalla de la mano de los principales protagonistas del Antiguo Testamento, imprimiéndole la música y el humor refinado que caracterizan su obra. Caín pone de manifiesto lo que hay de moderno y sorprendente en la prosa de Saramago: la capacidad de hacer nueva una historia que se conoce de principio a fin. Un irónico y mordaz recorrido en el que el lector asiste a una guerra secular, y en cierto modo, involuntaria, entre el creador y su criatura.

ES TIEMPO DE VOLVER

AL COMPROMISO:

EL ESCRITOR TIENE QUE DECIR

QUIÉN ES Y QUÉ PIENSA

No es éste un libro triste, no es un libro tronante, es, simplemente, una despedida. Por eso, José Saramago, pese a estar atento a la anécdota del día o al suceso terrible, pese a usar el humor y la ironía y emplearse a fondo en la compasión, rescata textos dormidos que son actuales y nos los deja como regalos inesperados, no como un testamento, simplemente ofrendas íntimas que desvelan pasiones y sueños. Nos acerca al mundo de Kafka, o a la inevitable tristeza de Charlot, o nos describe la soberbia aventura de coronar la cima de la Montaña Blanca, en Lanzarote. Éste es un libro de vida, un tesoro, un Saramago que nos habla al oído para decirnos que el problema no es la justicia, sino los jueces que la administran en el mundo. No habrá más cuadernos, esa mirada oblicua para ver el revés de las cosas, la frontal, sin bajar nunca la cabeza ante el poder, sí para besar, la ironía, la curiosidad, la sabiduría de quien no habiendo nacido para contar sigue contando, y con qué actualidad ahora que ya no está y tanta falta nos sigue haciendo. Así son las despedidas de los hombres que saben que han nacido de la tierra y que a la tierra vuelven, pero abrazados a ella, con esa especie de inmortalidad que ofrece el suelo del que nos levantamos cada día, con nuevas experiencias incorporadas. Las de quienes son suelo y tierra, nuestro sustento, tal vez nuestra alma.

PILAR DEL RÍO

José Saramago was eighteen months old when he moved from the village of Azinhaga with his father and mother to live in Lisbon. But he would return to the village throughout his childhood and adolescence to stay with his maternal grandparents, illiterate peasants in the eyes of the outside world, but a fount of knowledge, affection, and authority to young José.

Shifting back and forth between childhood and his teenage years, between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this is a mosaic of memories, a simply told, affecting look back into the author's boyhood: the tragic death of his older brother at the age of four; his mother pawning the family's blankets every spring and buying them back in time for winter; his beloved grandparents bringing the weaker piglets into their bed on cold nights; and Saramago's early encounters with literature, from teaching himself to read by deciphering articles in the daily newspaper, to poring over an entertaining dialogue in a Portuguese-French conversation guide, not realizing that he was in fact reading a play by Molière.

Written with Saramago's characteristic wit and honesty, Small Memories traces the formation of an artist fascinated by words and stories from an early age and who emerged, against all odds, as one of the world's most respected writers.

When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-first by surreal events and then by love. “A splendidly imagined epic voyage...a fabulous fable” (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

José Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922. He is the author of six novels, including Baltasar and Blimunda and The History of the Siege of Lisbon, Blindness, and All The Names. His backlist is available in Harvest editions.

Tertuliano Máximo Afonso é professor de História. Ao visionar um filme banal que um colega de matemática lhe recomendara descobre que um dos actores é um seu sósia. O argumento do livro é a sua demanda, e depois confronto com o actor que é seu duplicado. Uma história que se lê de um fôlego e na qual Saramago se revela mestre do suspense. Romance que nos faz lembrar um thriller onde o autor aborda questões ligadas à identidade (e a falta dela).

Na contracapa: "O caos é uma ordem por decifrar" Livro dos contrários

Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily preoccupations. In the evenings, and on weekends, he works on bringing up to date his clipping file of the famous, the rising stars, the notorious. But when one day he comes across the birth certificate of an anonymous young woman, he decides that this cannot have been mere chance, he has to discover more about her. After all, to know a name is not to know the person.

Under the increasingly mystified eye of the Registrar, a godlike figure whose name is spoken only in whispers, the now obsessed Senhor José sets off, in every moment he can steal from work, to follow the thread that leads him to the woman's school, to her godmother, to her father and mother-but as he gets closer to a meeting with the unknown woman, he discovers more about her, and about himself, than he would have wished....

The loneliness of people's lives, the effects of chance and moments of recognition, the discovery of love, however tentative...once again José Saramago has written a timeless story.

On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration—flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home—families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots.

Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small became human and were to fall in love?

This collection, available exclusively in e-book form, brings together the twelve novels (and one novella) of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago, with an introductory essay by Ursula Le Guin.

From Saramago’s early work, like the enchanting and the controversial , through his masterpiece and its sequel , to his later fables of politics, chance, history, and love, like and , this volume showcases the range and depth of Saramago’s career, his inimitable narrative voice, and his vast reserves of invention, humor, and understanding.

Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband Marçal in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, an imposing complex of shops, apartments, and offices to which Cipriano delivers his pots and jugs every month. On one such trip, he is told not to make any more deliveries. Unwilling to give up his craft, Cipriano tries his hand at making ceramic dolls. Astonishingly, The Center places an order for hundreds, and Cipriano and Marta set to work-until the order is cancelled and the three have to move from the village into The Center. When mysterious sounds of digging emerge from beneath their apartment, Cipriano and Marçal investigate, and what they find transforms the family's life. Filled with the depth, humor, and the extraordinary philosophical richness that marks each of Saramago's novels, The Cave is one of the essential books of our time.

This is a skeptic’s journey into the meaning of God and of human existence. At once an ironic rendering of the life of Christ and a beautiful novel, Saramago’s tale has sparked intense discussion about the meaning of Christianity and the Church as an institution. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

In this “ingenious” novel (New York Times) by “one of Europe’s most original and remarkable writers” (Los Angeles Times), a proofreader’s deliberate slip opens the door to romance-and confounds the facts of Portugal’s past.

In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant’s journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary people. Out of this material, José Saramago has spun a novel already heralded as “a triumph of language, imagination, and humor” ().

Solomon and his keeper, Subhro, begin in dismal conditions, forgotten in a corner of the palace grounds. When it occurs to the king and queen that an elephant would be an appropriate wedding gift, everyone rushes to get them ready: Subhro is given two new suits of clothes and Solomon a long overdue scrub.

Accompanied by the Archduke, his new wife, and the royal guard, our unlikely heroes traverse a continent riven by the Reformation and civil wars. They make their way through the storied cities of northern Italy: Genoa, Piacenza, Mantua, Verona, Venice, and Trento, where the Council of Trent is in session. They brave the Alps and the terrifying Isarco and Brenner Passes; they sail across the Mediterranean Sea and up the Inn River (elephants, it turns out, are natural sailors). At last they make their grand entry into the imperial city.is a delightful, witty tale of friendship and adventure.

Set in early 18th-century Portugal, this novel tells the story of the love between Baltasar, a soldier who lost a hand in the wars, and Blimunda, whose mother died at the hands of the Inquisition.

The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

A man went to knock at the king's door and said to him, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favors (favors being done to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear . . ." Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him the reader will discover as this short narrative unfolds. And at the end it will be clear that if we thought we were reading a children's fable we were wrong-we have been reading a love story and a philosophical tale worthy of Voltaire or Swift.

Słowo nie wstawione przez redaktora w miejscu, gdzie nie umieścił go autor HISTORII OBLĘŻENIA LIZBONY, nie ma żadnego wpływu na dzieje miasta i jego mieszkańców, nie odwróci biegu historii, może jednak całkowicie odmienić życie pojedynczego człowieka. Raimundo Silva, redaktor pracujący w domu, którego życie ubogie było dotąd w drobne choćby sukcesy i niespodzianki, napisze alternatywną HISTORIĘ OBLĘŻENIA LIZBONY, w wazonie w jego kawalerskim mieszkaniu pojawi się biała róża, a w sercu nieznane mu dotąd uczucie. Czytelnik zaś przeniesie się w czasy, gdy w mieście otoczonym przez wojska Alfonsa Henriquesa – późniejszego pierwszego króla Portugalii – po raz ostatni rozbrzmiał śpiew almuadema z wieży głównego meczetu. Napisana z dużą dozą ironii i autoironii HISTORIA OBLĘŻENIA LIZBONY, w której podwójny wątek miłosny splata się z historycznym i metapowieściowym, to książka godna plecenia nie tylko miłośnikom prozy José Saramago. José Saramago, laureat literackiej Nagrody Nobla i najpopularniejszy na świecie prozaik portugalski, sławę zdobył dopiero w sześćdziesiątym roku życia swoją trzecią powieścią BALTAZAR I BLIMUNDA, nagrodzoną prestiżową nagrodą portugalskiego PEN Clubu oraz Nagrodą Literacką Miasta Lizbona.

Jan V, władca Portugalii na początku XVIII wieku, pragnie syna i ślubuje po jego narodzinach wznieść ogromny klasztor. Gdy królowa zachodzi w ciążę, przyszły ojciec, chcąc dotrzymać obietnicy, kładzie kamień węgielny pod budowę monumentalnej bazyliki. W tym samym czasie, pewien ksiądz -heretyk realizuje swoje marzenie: budowę napędzanej siłą ludzkiej woli maszyny latającej, która mogłaby go przenieść do innej, szczęśliwszej krainy. W zadaniu tym pomagają mu okaleczony żołnierz Baltazar i olśniewająca Blimunda, córka zesłanej do Angoli czarownicy. Niesamowite przygody tej trójki splatają wątek miłosny z historią o uporze człowieka walczącego o swoją godność i wolność.

W mieście wybucha epidemia ślepoty pogrążając ludzi w mlecznej otchłani. Powstają miejsca zesłania ociemniałych nieszczęśników, ale my obserwujemy tylko jeden szpital. Wkrótce jego społecznością zaczynają rządzić mechanizmy odtwarzające odwieczne schematy: walka o przetrwanie, o władzę, podział ról na ofiary i oprawców. Przekroczone są wszelkie granice upodlenia, jakby ociemniały świat pozbył się nagle hamulców ukształtowanych przez tradycję, wiarę i kulturę.

Bohater- pan Jose, urzędnik Archiwum Głównego Akt Stanu Cywilnego- za wszelką cenę stara się odnaleźć pewną kobietę. Choć nie ma żadnego konkretnego powodu, by jej szukać, coś pcha go do działania. Aby osiągnąć swój cel, ten uczciwy, z pozoru bezbarwny człowiek ucieka się do oszustwa, a nawet przestępstwa. Co każe mu to czynić? Odbywając z bohaterem absurdalną wędrówkę po korytarzach Archiwum, czytelnik niepostrzeżenie zagłębia się w labirynt własnego umysłu, by odnaleźć w nim to, czego wcale się nie spodziewa.

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. What's going on? 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. The president proposes that a wall be built around the city to contain the revolution. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that had hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? Is she the organizer of a conspiracy against the state? 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.

Pewien mężczyzna, rozwodnik i nauczyciel historii, jest znudzony życiem. Sam o sobie mówi, że cierpi na depresję, że nauczanie to dla niego marsz w miejscu, że nie pamięta, dlaczego się ożenił, i że woli nie pamiętać, dlaczego się rozwiódł. Pewnej bezsennej nocy rozpoznaje siebie w jednym z aktorów grających w oglądanym właśnie filmie. Jego depresja pogłębia się, a życie zaczyna się toczyć podwójnym torem. Dzieją się coraz dziwniejsze, coraz bardziej zaskakujące rzeczy, szara jeszcze niedawno egzystencja dostarcza nauczycielowi nadmiaru wrażeń.