He self-identified as a communist, an aetheist, and a pessimist, and part of his name was apparently mistakenly added by the birth registrar.
He self-identified as a communist, an aetheist, and a pessimist, and part of his name was apparently mistakenly added by the birth registrar. His short story "The Tale of the Unknown Island" uses metaphor to convey themes of discovery and criticism of bureaucracy, which are characteristic of most of his works. In addition to short stories and poetry, such as "The Year 1993", he wrote plays that have yet to be translated into English, such as One Night, and The Second Life of Francis of Assisi, as well as a travel book about his home country. He is well-known in his home country for novels including This World and the Other, The Appointments, Handbook of Painting and Calligraphy, and The Little Memories. FTP, who is this prolific author of peasant-birth, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, who is perhaps best-known for his novels Cain, The Stone Raft, The Death of Ricardo Reis, and The Gospel According to Jesus Christ?
He self-identified as a communist, an aetheist, and a pessimist, and part of his name was apparently mistakenly added by the birth registrar.
Jose de Sousa {Saramago}