Acompanhar Ricardo por Lisboa fez-me recordar todos os bons momentos em que vivia na cidade. Uma obra cativante com o melhor e mais inesperado final feito por Saramago.
Merece uma leitura e releituras ao longo da vida! Leia e descubra! Como lida a sociedade com a mortalidade? De repente, as pessoas deixam de morrer. E a morte, personagem principal deste livro, fica sem trabalho. O meu primeiro livro de Saramago, o livro que me fez apaixonar por este senhor. Uma escrita com ironia que transporta para as suas obras. Memorial do Convento. O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis. Fique de olho! Escolha o seu! Tudo isso em uma batalha entre criador e criatura. Uma excelente escolha para refletir sobre a lucidez de olhar para o mundo com os olhos de dentro.
Saiba que o escritor apresenta, entre outros livros infantis, a obra "A Maior Flor do Mundo". Foto 1. Agatha Christie fez sua estreia como autora de livros policiais com O Misterioso Caso de Styles, em Top 10 Melhores Livros de Futebol para Comprar em Bons estudos! You know why? Because the guy who wrote this book has received a Nobel Prize in literature for a reason. Because he is brilliant, that's why.
And because he decided to play around with this story, leaving us - or at least me - unable to resist its pull. And so I stand by my 5-star rating from a year ago , and begin a desperate hunt for more Saramago books.
View all 25 comments. Apr 27, Lizzy rated it it was amazing Shelves: read , favorites-of-all-times , nobel-laureates , classics-literay-fiction , stars Who, after all, at some point in life, hasn't asked why do we have to die? The dream of immortality has fascinated humanity forever. But nothing is for free on this earth of ours, and very soon the exultation starts to die down. Slowly the country finds itself disoriented for what to do, immersed in a new confusion.
People lose jobs no more jobs for undertakers or gravediggers, and so many others that depended on it. Religion has lost its reason and its greatest reward, resurrection. And he is always amazing us: "Due to some strange optical phenomenon, real or virtual, death seems much smaller now as if her bones had shrunk, or perhaps she was always like that, and it's our eyes, wide with fear, that make her look like a giant.
Read it if you enjoy something that will leave you with much more than with what you started before opening one of his books. As his literature Nobel Prize attests, he knows how to write. Sep 24, s. Shelves: death , saramago , love , nobel-prize-winners. Out of the half dozen Saramago novels I have read, this is actually my favorite.
It may have been due in part that I devoured most of it while seated upon the sun soaked banks of a river this past July, but this short little work really struck me. It is so unique and imaginative and this book was just a really fun read. Despite it's focus of death and all, it isn't quite as heavy as most of his novels and will make you laugh at the dark abyss of death as most of this novel is actually darkly hum Out of the half dozen Saramago novels I have read, this is actually my favorite.
Despite it's focus of death and all, it isn't quite as heavy as most of his novels and will make you laugh at the dark abyss of death as most of this novel is actually darkly humorous. There is no traditional plot for the first two thirds of the novel as Saramago displays his story with a broad shot that encompasses all facets of his deathless phenomenon.
The first part of the novel is more or less Saramago's imagination exploring all sides of his idea. Saramago takes something most people would view as a great joy - to live forever - and puts it on an ugly display as a terrifying curse.
Namely, just because you live forever doesn't mean you don't suffer bodily harm. He tells of people with their guts spilled out somehow living on and other horrific conditions to a similar effect. He goes on to explain how this also practically ruins the economy and brings about the maphia who choose this with a 'ph' to separate themselves from the regular mafia who create more undying corpses if you don't bow to their wishes.
What a disaster of a world is made in the first pages. In the second section of the novel, Saramago zooms in and shows this event on a small scale; his major focus is on death herself and how she relates to the world. Saramago's death character was fascinating and different than any traditional image of death speaking of tradition death, there is a funny bit where the government takes all the traditional images of death and uses technology to see what these skull images would look like with a human face and he actually manages to make death a likeable, empathizable character.
I won't go into the plot and spoil what happens in case you have not yet read this, but I never thought I'd read a book about Death as a main character and describe it as 'cute' and like it for that.
Saramago once again does the impossible and all I can say is that after the last page you can't help but say "aww". As a note of caution, Saramago has a unique style that tends to turn people away and this slightly bothers me. It is NOT difficult to read, give it a few pages and I promise you will grasp it.
It flows surprisingly well. Also, Saramago has a very distinct voice that I can't get enough of. He speaks directly to you as a reader and he talks at his characters in a very fatherly, loving fashion that lets you see how proud he is of his own creations.
He has a very good way of telling a story, often justifying his reasons for why he chose to tell it the way he does in a funny, unique manner. I would highly recommend this to any Saramago fan, and to anyone new to this Nobel laureate's works although I think Blindness might be a better starting point.
View all 12 comments. A most fantastic story portrayed in a most realistic way. Death, described as a beautiful woman about thirty-six years old, comes to the city to confront the principle cellist of the national symphony orchestra, a man who just turned fifty. Violet colored stationery mailed by death and the music from J. I cried when I got to the end of this one. View all comments. I love the cover of this book, the cartoon woman in black, paused on the doorstep of someone's life, her symbolic scythe held aloft.
A light switch features in the centre of the illustration as if she might jokingly dim the lights while she fulfills her task. We almost expect to see a grin on her face and the illustrator has kindly left her features blank so that we can fill in that smirk for ourselves. A perfect book cover for a satire about death.
In fact Saramago wrote this book in at a time when his own health was poor; he was eighty-three and suffering from leukaemia and there was a point around then when his own death was interrupted: he was pronounced dead but recovered and lived on until Two years before he died, he wrote in The Notebook , The truth is, I feel myself alive, very much alive, whenever for one reason or other I have to talk about death.
As we read Death with Interruptions we really appreciate the truth of that statement. It is all so smoothly done that we can only stand back and admire the perfect blend of what is said with the way it is said. No one writes quite like Saramago. View all 57 comments. May 22, BlackOxford rated it it was amazing Shelves: portuguese-language. Saramago knows what most of us know but don't know how to say.
He knows how politicians and academics and policemen and peasants talk and what they mean when they talk, which is often the opposite of what they say. And his gentle irony accepts the fact that we all lie by inevitable omission every time we utter a sound.
So death for example may be lethal but perhaps it is not morbid. Perhaps it too can be embraced in life. View all 17 comments. Mar 03, Jr Bacdayan rated it really liked it. The book can be separated into two parts, the first part is a study of conceptual death or more accurately the loss thereof, and how it would affect the lives of the mortal beings suddenly deemed immortal.
Then about two-thirds into the book, death suddenly takes another entity, from a formerly conceptual standpoint we are gradually introduced to death personified. Death is a woman, a beautiful woman, who takes interest upon a lone mortal who evades her scythe. Initially I found this rather tedious. With a macro narrative that detailed events of a nameless monarchial country, more interested in industries than people, it offered an interesting enough chronicle anchored on the premise that death evaded all the inhabitants of a single country at the impetus of a new year.
With only a mild interest to sustain me, I ambled through the pages half-heartedly. But as it progressed death slowly gained, like it slurped away life from a gravely ailing elderly, qualities of a human being. The last third of the novel flashed by me.
Death, I learned, is far more fascinating as a person than a concept. As a rather imaginative story dealing with a very familiar yet unwelcome theme, it manages to paint death in a fair and, ironically, impersonal light without being emotional or needlessly sentimental. It is even somewhat comical as it shows the ridiculousness of our species when we fear it one moment, but potentially long for it the moment it no longer plagues us.
This book is filled with wisdom about death, life, our tendencies as mortal creatures. There are snippets, conversations, which surprised me with sly intelligence and wry wit. To some degree maybe the parts, the consonantia , as Aquinas would have put it, are better than the integritas , or the whole. Yes, the entirety of the novel does seem a bit fragmented, however its ability to penetrate an issue such as death and its spirited treatment of it deserves high praise.
Death is a part of life; death is a quality that makes us human, death is even an economic pillar. When taken away, as in this book, it poses doubts about life, questions humanity, trivializes love, destabilizes our economy, and mocks our fear of an integral aspect of our nature.
What is there to fear then? Perhaps it will leave an aftertaste? View all 6 comments. Sep 14, Mohammed Algarawi rated it did not like it. New review: I gave it another shot and finished after a long struggle. I still stand by my opinion.
In fact, this is the first book I gave up on. What's sad is that the premise behind the book is brilliant and mind blowing, but it's just not flexible to be contained in pages. The book might strike you as a short easy read, but it's definitely not. The punctuatio New review: I gave it another shot and finished after a long struggle. The punctuation is horrible, and the story kept dragging on and on and on The progression of the book was extremely weird, it feels quick and intense and interesting and full of story details in two or tree pages, and then it gets extremely dull with obvious details.
I liked the author's style of writing, and I think I would've accepted the horrible punctuation if the story was good enough. But it just didn't work with me. It took me over three weeks to figure that life is just too short to read a book you don't like. That's why I'm giving up on this book. View all 18 comments. LIFE I do not know if life deserves to be loved deeply. I believe that love for ourselves makes us love it, especially if another life someone we love and who loves us helps us find for existence a different meaning.
Feb 14, JimZ rated it really liked it. A very solid 3 stars. It moved too slow—that section of the book while clever, moved too slow for me. Imagine what would happen if in a country nobody died.
Death takes a holiday literally. Who would be happy? Would it upset you? If you knew a week before you were to pass that you had 7 days left, and the countdown clock was on? One of her envelopes comes back to her—return to sender. I am not sure I expected the ending.
Chop, chop. Aug 21, Vanessa J. The following day, no one died. Oh, humanity, always wishing for what we cannot have. Eternal life, the eternal dream. But what if it came true? What if no one died? Well, this is what happens in this book. The day is normal, nothing seems out of place… except people are not dying anymore.
Dream come true, right? Well, you always have to be careful what you wish for. So starts a conflict in which people start to freak out and realise the problem that is no more deaths. As it happened in Blindness , the realism of it all is striking. But death has more plans. She decides to play even more with people, and she wants to have more fun. In the process, however, she starts to feel love.
Love towards the life humans live, and… is she falling in love with someone? What would that represent? How hard can life get if she, the only with the power to kill when it pleases her, decides she likes humans more than her original form? There are many important themes addressed in this book. For example, religion is one of them. You can guess what some of his messages were. However, I must say, death yes, without capital d is a fantastic character.
Unexpectedly human, one would think. The writing gets a little to get used to. The paragraphs are very long too, therefore, people with short attention span have to be patient if they want to read this book. I promise you the book is worth it, and the concept is very interesting, and keeps interesting throughout the book.
Plus, Saramago was an amazing writer, with a well-deserved Nobel Prize and all. Now I want to continue his works with reading Seeing , which is the sequel to Blindness , another fantastic book I also recommend wholeheartedly. Answer me this question now: Do you want to know what the real consequences of an hypothetical eternal life are?
Do you want to live forever? If the you say yes to the first one, then read this. View all 7 comments. One gets the sense of a writer simply exploring a premise with great freedom and a lack of embarrassment.
Saramago allows himself to follow a line of thought to its logical conclusion, even if that conclusion is absurd to the point of ridiculousness. What makes this work is that he does not expect you to suspend disbelief. This is an exercise in conjecture, not realism. Where there are nonsensical contradictions, he is the first to point them out and laugh along with you. Saramago begins Death at Intervals with very broad strokes.
He is poking around, trying to kick up a worthy subject from under the dust, and it is clear from this haphazard approach that he really has no idea of the direction the novel will take. The scope narrows suddenly and dramatically in the second half of the novel, as he latches onto the single, salient figure that this rummaging has found for him.
The entire thing is as absurd as it is refreshing. The surprising strangeness of the second half of the novel justifies the meanderings of the first. The author leaves no stone unturned, no question unasked, as he takes us on this strange trip. The characters themselves guide his writing, and they are allowed to roam unbounded within his imagination.
There are so many surprising turns, so many dark corners of human experience that are uncovered in this free exploration, that are not acknowledged by any other writer. Sep 06, Malia rated it it was amazing Shelves: literary-fiction , best-of So strange, yes, but so thought provoking and somehow very tenderly written, too.
I definitely want to read more by this author and am really glad I stumbled upon this odd sounding book and gave it a chance.
Margaret Jull Costa, the translator, did a wonderful job, because the language and writing style was, in part, what made this book stand out so much for me. Death with Interruptions is definitely not going to be for everyone, but maybe it's because I read it at a time where so many are dying, so much tragedy is all around us, that it seemed strange and intriguing to contemplate death with the human face Saramago lends it. I'll be thinking about this one for some time to come.
Yes, This is It! It successfully targeted my 'Achilles' heel' well, each one of us is a potential Achilles. So, in other words, it made me fail the bet I made with myself that I won't read anything else but only Saramago until I'll devour and satisfy myself with all his existing printed out books. That was my Olympic marathon. It was a thing I was proud of, especia Yes, This is It!
It was a thing I was proud of, especially that I'm raising head over heels in a clashing and crushing amour with this Portuguese writer. I guess that because of too much spellbound charm I got myself 'blinded' could be truth in saying that love is blind and even extra deep sensitive.
The novel Death with Interruptions had to be the one to make me realize that indeed I am not a super-hero-god to disregard anything with the same attitude of 'everything is possible, nothing is impossible'. Not surprisingly, a complete economic and social breakdown ensues in the unnamed country though a monarchy.. The implications on all the social and economic stakeholders are terrifying, shocking, dizzying, eventually apocalyptic.
The book itself abounds with a completely challenging theme.
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