José Saramago
Portuguese novelist, playwright and journalist; awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. Best known for works such as Blindness, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Baltasar and Blimunda.
Books
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1. Geschichte Der Belagerung Von Lissabon
A disenchanted proofreader in Lisbon deliberately alters a single word in a manuscript recounting the medieval siege of the city; this small falsification sets off a personal and philosophical unraveling—reviving a passionate relationship with a colleague, provoking meditations on history, language, truth and guilt, and transforming a straightforward past into a playful, subversive exploration of storytelling and responsibility.