tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post2780159631676000409..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Take careful note. No one can narrate everything. - Saramago provides informationAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-81193453051186167412012-10-02T21:26:41.411-05:002012-10-02T21:26:41.411-05:00Oh, that's a good line. Saramago so often see...Oh, that's a good line. Saramago so often sees things from surprising points of view.<br /><br />I did not comment, but I enjoyed your <a href="http://soveryvery.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/the-persiflage-of-pretend/" rel="nofollow">recent Stendhal post</a>. Stendhal is a mystery to me. Every clue helps.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-24397220416938422722012-10-02T19:00:13.130-05:002012-10-02T19:00:13.130-05:00"extraordinary how a man or a woman are forme..."extraordinary how a man or a woman are formed, regardless, there inside the ovary, and protected from the outside world, even though it is this very same world that they will have to confront, as king or soldier, as friar or assassin, as an English whore in Barbados or a condemned woman in the Rossio, always as something, never as everything, and never as nothing. For, after all, we can escape from everything, but not from ourselves." <br /><br />José Saramago from Baltasar and Blimunda<br /><br />This is favorite of mine. I fall to pieces when ever I think of the end. I am enjoying wandering around the long halls of your blog....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-83286579196524037092012-05-12T15:10:16.738-05:002012-05-12T15:10:16.738-05:00Metaphorical stones fortunately do little harm whe...Metaphorical stones fortunately do little harm when they metaphorically crush one. Yes, thanks a lot for the spur to read this.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-45944815863697894552012-05-12T14:24:47.924-05:002012-05-12T14:24:47.924-05:00Hmmmm, I hate to think I was crushed under a stone...Hmmmm, I hate to think I was crushed under a stone, but in fact, it seems I was. Still, I appreciate the opportunity to read at least half of it, Tom, and I thank you for bringing it to my attention.Bellezza https://www.blogger.com/profile/18073864187188953633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-55370753064397827852012-05-10T22:59:45.953-05:002012-05-10T22:59:45.953-05:00Why would a bookstore carry such a book? Are they...Why would a bookstore carry such a book? Are they <i>trying</i> to go out of business? But you, like Borges and Bioy Casares, should find some good stuff in that book.<br /><br />Saramago two-days is more like it. Tomorrow, something merely related.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-58983221494732299162012-05-10T22:26:05.082-05:002012-05-10T22:26:05.082-05:00"Take careful note" and that bit about e..."Take careful note" and that bit about eventually clarifying "the errors on which history are based" are both good gags. I should prob. get around to finishing <em>The History of the Siege of Lisbon</em> one of these days, but that will likely have to wait because I finally found a copy of Eça's <em>Cousin Bazilio</em> at a bricks and mortar bookstore this week--an off-topic first for me! Obrigado for Saramago week, by the way.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-74206285927925275652012-05-10T19:31:44.582-05:002012-05-10T19:31:44.582-05:00Huh, yeah, Siege of Lisbon seems to be directly ab...Huh, yeah, <i>Siege of Lisbon</i> seems to be directly about that sort of thinking. I just noticed the joke of "clarified" - the errors will not be corrected or remove, just clarified.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-75436217368654177642012-05-10T12:44:20.189-05:002012-05-10T12:44:20.189-05:00“One day, the errors on which history is based wil...“One day, the errors on which history is based will finally be clarified” -- that's sounds like a reference to Saramago's later novel, The History of the Siege of Lisbon.Isabella Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10735198478395875257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-82504942327272629042012-05-10T11:51:23.847-05:002012-05-10T11:51:23.847-05:00This type of narrator was specially effective in c...This type of narrator was specially effective in communicating his skepticism of religion. And maybe his communist politics. I'm not sure of the extent of editing, but it could be not that major. ("Disowned" may not be the right word.)Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-3036671452092846972012-05-10T11:37:24.217-05:002012-05-10T11:37:24.217-05:00What! Disowned! Edited! Not that I do not belie...What! Disowned! Edited! Not that I do not believe it - all too common.<br /><br />Seeing this narrator in operation clarified how some of the other books must work. How <i>The Gospel According to Jesus Christ</i> distinguishes itself from other retellings of the Gospels, for example.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-24645379208718294912012-05-10T11:29:48.742-05:002012-05-10T11:29:48.742-05:00You make me want to read this again. The intrusive...You make me want to read this again. The intrusive narrator is one of the things I admired about Saramago. His controversial book on Jesus Christ was my favorite. <br /><br />I think we read the same edition (1987). I later learned this version was "disowned" by Saramago as it was an edited one and a restored version came out.Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.com