Like Saramago because their gaze is not colonial.
appreciate your respect of the consideration for the other.
appreciate your old voice teacher Socrates: "The worst pornography in the world is hunger"
Portuguese because I enjoy hedonism lacks in other Western writers overflows.
I love their commitment to the human race, a style near the heart, but I like to think the world beyond the immediate, in projection, ie his novels are written because the issue happens in the world, sensible reason to think that the characteristic or should characterize human beings, which leads to a particular situation, we appreciate on Blindness, An Essay on the clarity, the cave.
Challenging those who think it is a presentation card from another time " AM A COMMUNIST HORMONAL ." "I suffer from something that can be called communism hormone. For example, hormones make men have beards and women do not, well, imagine that some people are born with certain hormones that lead to communism and the poor have no choice but to be so. There you why I remain a communist, a hormone that compels me an ethical obligation "
" Politically, the right has no ideas and the left can not live without them, both are areas where ruins. We live in a world where democracy is not discussed because it is assumed that there is, and is pure fallacy, falsehood in the world "
The book keeps conversations conducted by journalist Jorge Halperin for the newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique. His agility flash content, controversial and commitment of the Nobel Prize for Literature, José Saramago.
He admits: "I citizen atheist, I do not need God at all. I do not need anything. I just need my own sense of responsibility. What I think is my ethics responsibility "
Accompanied by his third wife Pilar del Rio, 30 years younger than the Nobel, las entrevistas se suceden en diversas estaciones. A lo cual exclamaría: uno no se casa con una mujer más joven para rejuvenecer.
El tiempo, la edad, no lo frenan, sabe, siente que es un escritor tardío. A sus 86 años trabaja diariamente 9 a 10 horas en la arquitectura de palabras.
"El momento más intenso de mi vida literaria coincide con mis 60 años. Yo publiqué mi primera obra importante, "Alzado del Suelo" a los 58 porque dejé de escribir veinte años, no tenía nada que say "
" What interests me is what happens in the world, what I want is to fit what I do on it, make some sense in the world that we living, it is not something that is outside "
Autodidact, Saramago requires, implores, schools and universities are" persons "rather than engineers, marketers economists, ie educating citizens.
Portuguese regrets that literature is made for a minority. We have their exceptions, a shepherd with his sheep philosopher reading "The Cave" in the bush, it is the coolest.
based on pessimism: "I love the naysayers, because there are good reasons to be pessimistic life, pessimists are the ones who have reason to want change the world because the world is not therefore want to change and improve. Optimists do not. They do nothing, are delighted.
... and against the church: "Not for nothing, because we can not" love one another "is an impossible project, rather we should say "respect each other" would be more useful than love. Love comes and goes. And respect is cold, is a position in life "I have to respect each other" ...
Inhabitant of the volcanic island of Lanzarote, conversations press on their anger with the world, his controversy with the Catholic Church, the Israeli issue, how to select titles and other interesting topics, which make a man Saramago intense in the literature and in human consciousness .
Book: Conversations with Jorge Halperin
Editorial: Black Sheep