The Notebook
Published on 1. May 2011
300 pages
978-1-78168-372-9 (ISBN)
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Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of Jos¿ Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, he evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends, and meditates on his favorite authors. Precise observations and moments of arresting significance are rendered with pointillist detail, and together demonstrate an acute understanding of our times. Characteristically critical and uncompromising, Saramago dissects the financial crisis, deplores Israel's punishment of Gaza, and reflects on the rise of Barack Obama. The Notebook is a unique journey into the personal and political world of one of the greatest writers of our time.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78168-372-9 (9781781683729)
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The Portuguese Nobel Laureate Jos¿ Saramago was a novelist, playwright and journalist. His numerous books, including the bestselling All the Names, Blindness, and The Cave, have been translated into more than forty languages and have established him as one of the world's most influential writers. He died in June 2010.
Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the author of Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose, and other international bestsellers. He lives in Milan, Italy.
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, researcher, and translator. His translations include Creole (2002), The Book of Chameleons (2006), My Father's Wives (2008), and Rainy Season (2009), by Angolan novelist Jose? Eduardo Agualusa.
Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the author of Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose, and other international bestsellers. He lives in Milan, Italy.
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, researcher, and translator. His translations include Creole (2002), The Book of Chameleons (2006), My Father's Wives (2008), and Rainy Season (2009), by Angolan novelist Jose? Eduardo Agualusa.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword: Impenitently Irritated, and Tender
- Preface
- September 2008
- Words for a City
- An Apology to Charles Darwin?
- George W. Bush, or the Age of Lies
- Berlusconi and Co.
- The Pulianas Cemetery
- Aznar, the Oracle
- Biographies
- Divorces and Libraries
- Nothing but Appearances
- The Whiteness Test
- Clear as Water
- Hopes and Utopias
- October 2008
- Where Is the Left?
- Enemies at Home
- On Fernando Pessoa
- The Other Side
- Getting Back to the Subject
- God and Ratzinger
- Eduardo Lourenço
- Jorge Amado
- Carlos Fuentes
- Federico Mayor Zaragoza
- God as a Problem
- A (Financial) Crime against Humanity
- Constitutions and Realities
- Chico Buarque de Holanda
- Do Torturers Have Souls?
- José Luis Sampedro
- When I Grow Up I Want to Be like Rita
- Fernando Meirelles & Co.
- A New Capitalism?
- The Question
- November 2008
- Falsehood, Truth
- The War that Wasn't
- Guantánamo
- 106 Years
- Words
- Rosa Parks
- Recipe for Killing a Man
- The Old and the Young
- Dogmas
- R.C.P.
- Eighty-Six Years
- Alive, Very Much Alive
- Flooding
- All the Names
- In Brazil
- Cattle
- Two Pieces of News
- The Infinite Page of the Internet
- A Day Well Lived
- Sex Education
- The Cultura Bookshop
- December 2008
- Differences
- Solomon returns to Belém
- For Anyone Who Might Be Interested
- Saviano
- Santa Fe Street
- Tribute
- Baltasar Garzón (1)
- Baltasar Garzón (2)
- Borges
- The Final Blow
- Words
- Publishers
- Gaza
- One Year On
- Christmas
- Supper
- Siblings-in-law
- Book
- Israel
- January 2009
- Reckoning Up
- The Irresponsible Sarkozy
- "No nos abandones"
- From David's Stones to Goliath's Tanks
- Together with Gaza
- Let's Suppose
- Ángel González
- Presidents
- Stonings and Other Horrors
- The Other Crisis
- Obama
- Where?
- Israel, Again
- What?
- Clinton?
- Rodham
- Gervasio Sánchez
- Testimony
- February 2009
- Bread
- Davos
- Bankers
- Adolf Eichmann
- Sampaio
- Vaticanadas
- Sigifredo
- Atheists
- As We Usually Say
- Chinese Feathers
- Domestic Abuse
- Death at Our Front Door
- What Is To Be Done About the Italians?
- Susi
- Paco
- Letter to Antonio Machado
- The Left
- Forms of Justice
- Water Dog
- March 2009
- Gonçalo M. Tavares
- Elections
- To Observe and to Restore
- To Restore and to Observe Once More
- The Eighth of March
- Douro-Duero
- Common Sense
- Kissing the Names
- Democracy from a Taxi
- Madam President
- Funes and Funes
- Here Comes the Wolf!
- Tomorrow Is the Millennium
- A Question of Color
- A Sack of Cats
- Raposa do Sol
- Fractal Geometry
- April 2009
- Mahmoud Darwish
- G20
- Santa Maria de Iquique
- The Fob Watch
- Further Reading on the Crisis
- To Read
- L'Aquila
- Bo
- Colombia in Lanzarote
- Delusions of Grandeur
- Together with Dario Fo
- Showing Off
- Nightshirt (Camisola)
- On the Impossibility of Such a Portrait
- Eduardo Galeano
- Boys in Black
- Memories
- Swine Flu (1)
- Swine Flu (2)
- May 2009
- Javier Ortíz
- Expulsion
- Benedetti
- A House Saint
- New Man
- The Fair
- Tortures
- Courage
- Corruption British Style
- Sofi a Gandarias
- How Long?
- Charlie
- Poets and Poetry
- A Dream
- Bribery
- Grown-ups
- The Life Cycle of a Flower
- Weapons
- Music
- Clean Hands?
- Disenchantment
- June 2009
- A Statue in Azinhaga
- Marcos Ana
- Journeys
- Secularism
- Carlos Casares
- The Berlusconi-thing
- Paradoxical
- A Good Idea
- Epitaph for Luís de Camões
- The Body of God
- Miguéis
- Netanyahu
- The Elephant on His Travels
- In Castelo Novo
- Return
- Sastre
- Sabato
- Formation (1)
- Formation (2)
- Black Spain
- Two Years
- July 2009
- Agustina
- Translating
- Review
- The Subject, on Himself
- Castril
- A Parting in the Hair
- Summer Reading
- Academician
- Aquilino
- Siza Vieira
- The Colors of the Earth
- Stories of Migration
- Jardinisms
- Moon
- Montaña Blanca
- Five Films
- Chapter for the "Gospel"
- A Male Problem
- The Right to Sin
- "E pur si muove"
- The Abjuration
- Álvaro Cunhal
- August 2009
- Gabo
- Patio do Padeiro (Baker's Patio)
- Almodóvar
- The Shadow of the Father (1)
- The Shadow of the Father (2)
- Yemen
- Africa
- The Man Who Would Be King:
- Guatemala
- Jean Giono
- Acteal
- Carlos Paredes
- Blood in Chiapas
- Sadness
- A Third God
- Playing Dirty
- Two Writers
- Republic
- The Carburetor
- Farewell
- September 2009
- The Return
- Formentor
- October 2009
- Happy Days
- November 2009
- No to Unemployment
- On Maria João Pires
