Friday, June 18, 2010

Blindness

a way of seeing
the invisible.


R.I.P. Jose Saramago

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

“Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world,” the critic Harold Bloom said in an interview for this obituary in 2008. “He was the equal of Philip Roth, Gunther Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile — he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy. It is hard to believe he will not survive.”

Nice, so they prepare obituaries in advance at the NYT?

Falstaff said...

Anon: Yup. Haven't you seen their last word video series?

I actually think it's kind of refreshing how up front about it they are.