died today at the age of 87 years, José Saramago, the only Nobel Prize for literature in Portuguese. Atheist and communist, is self-exile from his country of origin because the conservative president at the time, which is also today, he had wanted to present one of his works to an international prize since it was an unorthodox book on Jesus dealt Saramago often also of Italy, which dealt with the political situation, among other things, in his book "The Notebook" that Einaudi did not want to publish because it contained criticism of the prime minister. Notes were also taken its position in favor of Palestine, the Middle East conflict, for which he was branded as anti-Semitic.
In 1947, after doing menial jobs to sustain himself and his family, manages to publish his first work, but will not have much success. Will you get a certain reputation through the poetry books and novels, especially Memorial of the Convent and The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis . Blindness is considered his greatest masterpiece.
This morning, before his death, which occurred around 13, he posted a final post on his blog (caderno.josesaramago.org), which has left perhaps the teaching of a lifetime.
"I think today's society needs philosophy. Philosophy as space, place, method of reflection, which may or may not have a specific goal, such as science, which advances to reach new goals. Are we missing reflection, we need the labor of thinking, and I think that, without ideas, not going anywhere. "
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