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Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

July 23, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Death with Interruptions – 4/5 Stars As I have said, I started reading Saramago because of the comments of Ursula K Le Guin in her essay collection Words are My Matter. She wrote beautifully and swimmingly about his work and how much she respected him as a political person and a moral writer. She expressly talks about how he’s not a political writer, which is more or less true, in that he’s not a partisan writer (he’s politically socialist). Anyway, there’s a review blurb on […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: blindness, death with interruptions, jose saramago, the elephant's journey

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:279 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: blindness, death with interruptions, jose saramago, the elephant's journey ·
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