Bücher von Jose Saramago

Ein Sofa erkrankt an Fieber, Türen werden zu angriffslustigen Kreaturen, Briefkästen und ganze Gebäude verschwinden... In seinen Erzählungen nähert sich der große portugiesische Schriftsteller José Saramago einem tiefgründigen und facettenreichen Thema: Was hat es mit "den Dingen" auf sich, die uns alltäglich mit scheinbarer Selbstverständlichkeit umgeben? Welche Macht haben sie über uns?

Adi bilinmeyen bir ülkenin adi bilinmeyen bir kentinde, arabasinin direksiyonunda trafik isiginin yesile dönmesini bekleyen bir adam ansizin kör olur. Ancak karanliklara degil, bembeyaz bir bosluga gömülür. Arkasindan, körlük salgini bütün kente, hatta bütün ülkeye yayilir. Ne yönetim kalir ülkede, ne de düzen; bütün körler karantinaya alinir. Hayal bile edilemeyecek bir kaos, pislik, aclik ve zorbalik hüküm sürmektedir artik. Yasam durmustur, insanlarin tek cabasi, ne pahasina olursa olsun hayatta kalmaktir. Roman, kentteki akil hastanesinde karantinaya alinan, oradan kurtulunca da birbirinden ayrilmayan, biri cocuk yedi kisiye odaklanir. Aralarinda, bütün kentte gözleri gören tek kisi olan ve gruptakilere rehberlik eden bir kadin da vardir. Bu yedi kisi, cehenneme dönen bu kentte, hayatta kalabilmek icin inanilmaz bir mücadele verir. Saramagonun müthis bir gözlem gücüyle betimledigi bu kaotik dünya, insanin karanlik yüzünün simgesi.Körlük, ürkütücü bir roman, beklenmedik bir felaketi yasayan bir toplumun nasil cöktügünün, nasil bencillestiginin ve deger yargilarini yitirdiginin hikayesi.Konusunun ürkütücülügüne ragmen olaganüstü bir siirsellikle anlatilmis bu unutulmaz roman, usta yazarin belki de en etkileyici yapiti.

The inspiration for the major motion picture "Enemy" starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Denis Villeneuve Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video. He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. He sleeps badly. Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" (The Boston Globe). Saramago displays his remarkable talent in this haunting tale of appearance versus reality.

From Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago, "a capacious, funny, threatening novel" of wandering souls and political upheaval in 1930s Portugal (New York Times Book Review).The year is 1936, and the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is establishing himself in Portugal, edging his country toward civil war. At the same time, Dr. Ricardo Reis has returned home to Lisbon after a long sojourn in Brazil. What's brought him back is word that the great poet, Fernando Pessoa, has died. With no intention of resuming his practice, Reis now dabbles in his own poetry, wastes his days strolling the boulevards and back streets, engages in affairs with two different women?and is followed through each excursion by Pessoa's ghost. As a fascist revolution roils, and as Reis's path intersects with three relative strangers?two living, one dead?Reis may finally discover the reality of his own chimerical existence.Called "a magnificent tour-de-force, perhaps one of the best novels published in Europe since World War II" (Bloomsbury Review) and "altogether remarkable" (Wall Street Journal), The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis is a PEN Award winner.

Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant novel poses the question--what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? 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 d, became human and were to fall in love?

"The clarity and compassion of [Saramago's] vision make Seeing worthy of its name." --Washington Post ¿"I have never read a novel that gets so many details of the political behavior that we for some reason insist on calling 'organized' so hilariously and grimly right." --Chicago Tribune 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. 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. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? 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.

"[The Cave] is yet another triumph . . . for Portugal's, or even the world's, greatest novelist. Read it." -- Washington Post A genuinely brilliant novel." -- Chicago Tribune 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 and apartments to which Cipriano delivers his wares. One day, 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. But just as suddenly, the order is canceled and the penniless three have to move from the village into The Center. When mysterious sounds of digging emerge from beneath their new apartment, Cipriano and Marçal investigate; what they find transforms the family's life. Filled with the depth, humor, and extraordinary philosophical richness that marks all of Saramago's novels, The Cave is one of the essential books of our time.

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. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

Senhor José ist um die fünfzig und arbeitet im zentralen Personenstandsregister seiner Stadt, das alle relevanten Informationen zu Leben und Tod ihrer Bewohner dokumentiert. Privat sammelt er Zeitungsausschnitte über berühmte Persönlichkeiten, wobei er immer mal wieder auf die Akten seiner Behörde zurückgreift. Eines Tages gerät ihm zufällig die Karteikarte einer unbekannten Frau zwischen die Unterlagen. Neugierig geworden, macht er sich auf die Suche nach weiteren Informationen über die Unbekannte und gerät dabei auf gefährliche Abwege.

Der allein lebende Korrektor Raimundo da Silva erledigt die ihm zugeteilten Aufträge stets gewissenhaft und pünktlich. Für seine Anmerkungen, Deleaturen und Korrekturen bedient er sich seines eigenen Wissens und der ihn umgebenden Lexika, Wörter-und Geschichtsbücher. Menschlichen Kontakt hat er selten, seine Putzfrau und sein Arbeitgeber sind sein einziger Kontakt zur Außenwelt. Doch während einer routinemäßigen Abschlusskorrektur probt er plötzlich den Aufstand: Statt brav ein Buch über die Historie Lissabons auf Fehler durchzusehen, ändert er es eigenmächtig. Die Aktion revolutioniert sein Leben. Er wird zum besessenen Schriftsteller, der nun seine eigene Geschichte der Belagerung von Lissabon schreibt. Ein Sieg der Phantasie über die Fakten. Und gleichzeitig ist dies der Beginn einer wunderbaren Liebesgeschichte.

In seinen feinfühligen Prosaminiaturen zeichnet José Saramago eindrückliche Bilder vom Leben auf dem portugiesischen Land, wohin er auch nach dem Umzug nach Lissabon immer wieder zurückkehrt. Er erzählt von schwächlichen Ferkeln, die nachts im Ehebett schlafen dürfen, von aufgeschlagenen Knien, Steinschleudern oder der Jagd nach Fröschen, aber auch vom geliebten Großvater, davon, wie er sich selbst das Schreiben beibrachte und in der Schule zum Klassenbesten wurde. Unter die privaten Erlebnisse mischen sich poetische Reflexionen und Betrachtungen über Gott und die Welt, die diese kleinen Erinnerungen zur großartigen Lektüre machen.