A na?ve Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. He is chosen to lay down his life for man. In the desert it is not Satan but…

A Study Guide for Jose Saramago’s Blindness, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…

One of Mr. Saramago’s last books, and one of his most touching, (New York Times), this posthumous memoir of his childhood, written with characteristic wit and honesty, traces the formation…

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Portuguese novelist Jos Saramago introduces Senhor Jos, a clerk in the city’s Central Registry and collector of clippings of the famous and notorious…

In eighteenth-century Portugal, fifty thousand laborers carry stones on their backs across mountains to build the king’s convent, a heretical priest devises a magic flying machine–the Passarola–and two lovers’ dream…

Portuguese Nobel Laureate Saramago tells a fantastic tale about a city hit by an epidemic of white blindness. It is the basis of a major motion picture from Miramax Films…

Making use of insights from Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, and Marcuse, among others, Mark Sabine argues that Saramago sought to engage his reader with a skeptical but vibrant utopianism: teaching us…

An early example of Saramago’s mastery, this novel takes us into the last days of Salazar’s dictatorship when a second-rate artist is commissioned by a wealthy client to paint a…