José Saramago

Any fans here of Portuguese novelist José Saramago (1922-2010)?

I've read every novel he's published, plus short-stories, autobiography, diaries, and even collected blog entries. He was quite simply my favourite novelist at the time of his death. He's written:

Blindness (adapted into a movie)
Seeing
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
All The Names
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Death at Interruptions

You should read Seeing; it's a semi-sequel to Blindness. The blindness metaphor is more political here, having to do with blank votes. It is, to put it mildly, a novel that deals with what is called nowadays the 'Crisis of Democracy.'