http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10352251.stm

Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, has died at the age of 87, his publisher has announced.

 

RIP

Saramago, a communist and atheist,

 

I stopped reading there.

What do you mean? You don't like the way the BBC put Saramago or you just don't like Saramago?

RIP, not the only good writer near here that has died this year. :(

:( :( :(

I find it unsufferable how everyone criticizes him for his ideals... specially those rapists at the Vatican.

unsufferable...

 

Well, he was pretty harsh with his critiques to the Catholic church and Christianism in general.

Do you know Carlos Monsivais? He has just died today as well.

No I don't know him, but yes I saw it on the news today... He was not a writer but a journalist, right?

 

I really liked Saramago, I always felt like I needed to read more books from him and I will... It's so stupid how just some days after he dies the Vatican just comes out with dull critiques to him, but it's not like it should surprise anyone... isn't it what they've been doing for like the last 600 years? always against the great minds the Mankind has produced. :angry:

600? I'd say 1000 years of censurating reason and manipulating.

Yes, that... I missed only a few years.

 

Seriously, I feel sad for Saramago's death. Today I just made a list of the books I want to read from him. I just wish I had read more of him when he was alive. :(

i have never read anything from saramago :shame: but yeah its a lost for portugal...

 

Now kids from last year at highschool have to read one of his books.. thank god i did not lol i dont like his literatue :P

Now kids from last year at highschool have to read one of his books.. thank god i did not lol i dont like his literatue :P

 

Why not? is it for his anti-clericism attitute? Have you read his books: Ensaio sobre a cegueira or As Intermitências da Morte? I think his writting and his reflections on society and life are really beautiful.

I want to read the blindess one, I can't belive I haven't read it. Last book I read by him was Cain