What's the deal with Saramago?

>>8241068
He's dead, anon.

>>8241141
What's the deal with his work? Why did he wrote like that?

>>8241179
>Why did he wrote

>>8241184
Yeah, I'm not a native speaker.

>>8241179
Cause he didn't t understand proper grammar. Blindness was one long run on sentence.

>>8241198
I read that book and I found it uncomfortable to read because it was basically a giant wall of text.

>>8241209
>>8241198
>>8241179
He only wrote two pages a day, so you can very much feel when he started writing and when he stopped, but it's much more clear in Portuguese.

>>8241316
I read it in portuguese.

Whoa, he looks like my grandpa

He created his own way of writing that is an absolutely different way of dealing with language. He is a difficult writer to get into but an extremely rewarding one, mainly in the novels that he wrote before winning the nobel prize.

>>8241448
>He created his own way of writing that is an absolutely different way of dealing with language
my god, he replaces periods with commas

pure innovation

>>8241583

>It was a kekaphoney.

>>8241448
dude, he's really easy to read

Ricardo Reis is probably his best novel, haven't read too much, a lot of his work seems like decent but pure Marxist propaganda.