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José Saramago

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José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer, journalist, playwright, poet, literary critic, and translator, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.

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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

Ricardo Reis is one of the many names under which Fernando Pessoa, the greatest Portuguese writer of the twentieth century, signed his works. The author imagines that a Ricardo Reis, after sixteen years spent in Brazil, returns to Lisbon in the very year of Pessoa’s death, 1935. It is pointless to seek a plot in the novel; as in Joyce’s *Ulysses*, the real subject of the narrative is the wanderi

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