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1998 Nobel Prize In Literature
The 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Portuguese author José Saramago (1922–2010) "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." He is the only recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature from Portugal.José Saramago britannica.com Laureate José Saramago frequently makes use of allegory in his writing, and fanciful elements are interspersed with a detailed and critical look at society. A characteristic of Saramago's style is the blending of dialog and narration, in parable, parabolic forms, with sparse punctuation and long sentences that can extend for several pages. In one of his most successful novels, ''Blindness (novel), Ensaio sobre a Cegueira'' ("Blindness", 1995), the population is stricken with an epidemi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobel Prize Medal
Nobel often refers to: *Nobel Prize, awarded annually since 1901, from the bequest of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel Nobel may also refer to: Companies *AkzoNobel, the result of the merger between Akzo and Nobel Industries in 1994 * Branobel, or The Petroleum Production Company Nobel Brothers, Limited, an oil industry cofounded by Ludvig and Robert Nobel *Dynamit Nobel, a German chemical and weapons company founded in 1865 by Alfred Nobel *Nobel Biocare, a bio-tech company, formerly a subsidiary of Nobel Industries *Nobel Enterprises, a UK chemicals company founded by Alfred Nobel *NobelTel, a telecommunications company founded in 1998 by Thomas Knobel Geography *Nobel (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon. *Nobel, Ontario, a village located in Ontario, Canada. * 6032 Nobel, a main-belt asteroid Other uses *The Nobel family, a prominent Swedish and Russian family *Nobel (automobile) a licence-built version of the German Fuldamobil, manufactured in the UK and Chile * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltasar And Blimunda
''Baltasar and Blimunda'' ( pt, Memorial do Convento, 1982 in literature, 1982) is a novel by the Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago. It is an 18th-century love story intertwined with the construction of the Convent of Mafra, now one of Portugal's chief tourist attractions, as a background. Two young lovers interact naturally with historical characters including the composer and harpsichordist Domenico Scarlatti and the priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão, recognized today as an aviation pioneer, all in the shadow of the Inquisition#Portuguese Inquisition, Inquisition. The lovers are always at center stage wrapped in Saramago's language, which ranges from short simple sentences to surrealistic, unpunctuated paragraphs that help to intensify both the action and the setting. The book served as the basis for the opera ''Blimunda'' (1990), composed by Azio Corghi. Critical reception "Much reverberates in memory after reading this enchanting novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vatican City
Vatican City (), officially the Vatican City State ( it, Stato della Città del Vaticano; la, Status Civitatis Vaticanae),—' * german: Vatikanstadt, cf. '—' (in Austria: ') * pl, Miasto Watykańskie, cf. '—' * pt, Cidade do Vaticano—' * es, Ciudad del Vaticano—' is an independent city-state, microstate and enclave and exclave, enclave within Rome, Italy. Also known as The Vatican, the state became independent from Italy in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty, and it is a distinct territory under "full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction" of the Holy See, itself a Sovereignty, sovereign entity of international law, which maintains the city state's Temporal power of the Holy See, temporal, Foreign relations of the Holy See, diplomatic, and spiritual Legal status of the Holy See, independence. With an area of and a 2019 population of about 453, it is the smallest state in the world both by area and List of countries and dependencies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagens Nyheter
''Dagens Nyheter'' (, ), abbreviated ''DN'', is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It is published in Stockholm and aspires to full national and international coverage, and is widely considered Sweden's newspaper of record. History and profile ''Dagens Nyheter'' was founded by Rudolf Wall in December 1864. The first issue was published on 23 December 1864. During its initial period the paper was published in the morning. In 1874 the paper became a joint stock company. Its circulation in 1880 was 15,000 copies. In the 1890s, Wall left ''Dagens Nyheter'' and soon after, the paper became the organ of the Liberal Party. From 1946 to 1959, Herbert Tingsten was the executive editor. The newspaper is owned by the Bonnier Group since 1909, when Karl Otto Bonnier acquired the remaining shares that his family had not owned (his father Albert had already acquired some shares since 1888). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo
''The Gospel According to Jesus Christ'' (original title: ''O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo'', 1991) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. It is a fictional re-telling of Jesus Christ's life, depicting him as a flawed, humanised character with passions and doubts. The novel proved controversial, especially among the Roman Catholic Church, accusing Saramago of having a "substantially anti-religious vision". It was praised by other critics as a "deeply philosophical, provocative and compelling work". Plot introduction This book re-imagines the life of Jesus Christ, using the events depicted in the canonical gospels as a scaffold on which to construct its story. It does not follow the chronology of the life of Jesus Christ found in the New Testament. It places far greater emphasis on the earlier part of Jesus's life than the canonical gospels do. Plot summary The book begins with Jesus's conception by Mary and Joseph, in the spiritual presence of God. Jesus's b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a variety of forms originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. These texts include instructions, stories, poetry, and prophecies, among other genres. The collection of materials that are accepted as part of the Bible by a particular religious tradition or community is called a biblical canon. Believers in the Bible generally consider it to be a product of divine inspiration, but the way they understand what that means and interpret the text can vary. The religious texts were compiled by different religious communities into various official collections. The earliest contained the first five books of the Bible. It is called the Torah in Hebrew and the Pentateuch (meaning ''five books'') in Greek; the second oldest part was a coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam And Eve
Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors. They also provide the basis for the doctrines of the fall of man and original sin that are important beliefs in Christianity, although not held in Judaism or Islam. In the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, chapters one through five, there are two creation narratives with two distinct perspectives. In the first, Adam and Eve are not named. Instead, God created humankind in God's image and instructed them to multiply and to be stewards over everything else that God had made. In the second narrative, God fashions Adam from dust and places him in the Garden of Eden. Adam is told that he can eat freely of all the trees in the garden, except for a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Subsequently, Eve is created from one of Adam's ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cain (novel)
''Cain'' is the last novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago. The book was first published in 2009.ed. R. Ruard Ganzevoort, Maaike de Haardt, Michael Scherer-Rath ''Religious Stories We Live By: Narrative Approaches in Theology and ..''. - 2013 SARAMAGO'S RESHAPING OF CAIN AND GOD. A STUDY IN CHARACTERIZATION AND INTERTEXTUALITY Wim J.C. Weren "In two of his novels, the Portuguese writer José Saramago (1922–2010) criticized Jewish and Christian religious ..." In an earlier novel, "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ", Saramago retold the main events of the life of Jesus Christ, as narrated in the New Testament, presenting God as the villain. In ''Cain'', Saramago focuses on the Hebrew Bible (mainly the Pentateuch). Plot Summary The novel is mostly told through the eyes of Cain as he witnesses and recounts passages from the Bible that add to his increasing hatred of God. * A preliminary part follows the story line of the early chapters in the Book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gospel According To Jesus Christ
''The Gospel According to Jesus Christ'' (original title: ''O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo'', 1991) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. It is a fictional re-telling of Jesus Christ's life, depicting him as a flawed, humanised character with passions and doubts. The novel proved controversial, especially among the Roman Catholic Church, accusing Saramago of having a "substantially anti-religious vision". It was praised by other critics as a "deeply philosophical, provocative and compelling work". Plot introduction This book re-imagines the life of Jesus Christ, using the events depicted in the canonical gospels as a scaffold on which to construct its story. It does not follow the chronology of the life of Jesus Christ found in the New Testament. It places far greater emphasis on the earlier part of Jesus's life than the canonical gospels do. Plot summary The book begins with Jesus's conception by Mary and Joseph, in the spiritual presence of God. Jesus's b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The History Of The Siege Of Lisbon
''The History of the Siege of Lisbon'' ( pt, História do Cerco de Lisboa) is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago, first published in 1989. It tells the story of a proofreader and the story of the Siege of Lisbon as it both is and is not told in the book he is charged with correcting. It discusses many themes including language, history and historiography, and war in the medieval world. In the novel Saramago challenges the common one-dimensional interpretations of historical events that only focuses on kings and battles and ask for a more pluralistic perspective that include individual motives and behaviour and take account of the role of chance in shaping history.Daniel R. Schwarz "Saramago's ''The History of the Siege of Lisbon'' (1989)" ''Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900'' John Wiley & Sons 2018 Plot summary Raimundo Silva, assigned to correct a book entitled ''The History of Siege of Lisbon'' by his publishing house, decides to alter the meaning of a cru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Year Of The Death Of Ricardo Reis
''The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis'' (in Portuguese: ''O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis'') is a 1984 novel by the Portuguese novelist José Saramago, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. The book chronicles the final year in the life of the title character, Ricardo Reis, one of the many heteronyms used by the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. In the novel, Ricardo Reis returns to Lisbon from Brazil, upon catching wind of Pessoa's death. While there, he chooses not to resume practicing medicine, but rather takes up residence in a hotel, where he wastes his days reading newspapers and wandering the streets of Lisbon. The novel was translated into English by Giovanni Pontiero in 1991 and won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Themes The novel addresses several powerful literary themes, though mostly indirectly. For instance, Reis reads of the events leading to the Spanish Civil War, and he sees floods of Spanish immigrants arrive in Lisbon seeking refuge, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blindness (novel)
''Blindness'' ( pt, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning ''Essay on Blindness'') is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago. It is one of Saramago's most famous novels, along with ''The Gospel According to Jesus Christ'' and ''Baltasar and Blimunda''. In 1998, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and ''Blindness'' was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award. A sequel titled '' Seeing'' was published in 2004. ''Blindness'' was adapted into a film of the same name in 2008. Plot summary ''Blindness'' is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortune of a handful of unnamed characters who are among the first to be stricken with blindness, including an ophthalmologist, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance. The ophthalmologist's spouse, "the doctor's wife," is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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