Tag Archives: Jose Saramago

I’ve just finished reading Jose Saramago’s Death At Intervals.  I don’t really know what to make of it.  It’s about the strangest thing I’ve read all year and thats including a book that has KFC’s Colonel Sanders appearing as a pimp in Japan. So in Death At Intervals, an unnamed country discovers the complete absense of death one New Years ...

I was saddened to hear about the recent passing of the author Jose Saramago. Saramago was a Nobel prize-winning writer who was hugely popular in his home country of Portugal where it was reported that some 20,000 people attended his funeral (!) when he was buried last week.  He had a good innings, living to the ripe old age of ...