ساراماغوالمنوَرهذه اول تجربة لي مع ساراماغو شدني له لما ذكر الاستاذ اسماعيل فهد اسماعيل في احد الندوات ان اسلوب ساراماغو هو من غير في طريقة كتابه للروايات . هذه الرواية وانت تقرأها كأنك تفتح قطعة كبيرة من شوكلاة او حلوى وتاكلها ولا تريد ان تنتهي، كل ما انتهيت من قسم اريد ابتدي في القسم اللي بعده رائعة بكل ما تعنيه الكلمة من معنى وممتعة Skylight by Jose SaramagoThis book was the first novel ever written by the Nobel Prize Winner, but it was rejected by every publisher he sent it to. It then sat in a drawer for thirty years, until after his death when his wife found it and decided it should be published. It doesn’t read like one of his famous novels but is worthwhile to read to see how his writing progressed from his first try to his later world appreciated style.This is a very standard type of novel for the 1950s and one of the styles that was popular at the time. The situation is a six apartment complex in a working area of Lisbon during the post-WW2 Salazar dictatorship. Salazar ruled a “corporate” state from 1932 to 1968 and upon his death the First Portuguese Republic was established. His rule is known for its’ invasiveness into all part of society and the unswerving loyalty of the military and bureaucracy to Salazar’s rule.The apartment building is full of working class people trying to survive to the next month. On the ground floor is a cobbler and his shop where he and his wife rent out a room to a ‘traveler’. Across the hall is a husband and wife who recently lost their only child. Upstairs, on the first floor, is a ‘kept woman’ and another family where the husband and wife vie for the love of their son. Above the single woman are a salesman, his wife and their single daughter. Lastly are four woman, two sisters and one of the sister’s two daughters. The book follows these people as they interact with each other, other tenants and the people of Lisbon. We watch as their lives weave from the mundane workday of a housewife, the busy times of the cobbler, the quiet days of the ‘woman’ and the interactions of the four woman. Most of these stories are banal and wouldn’t make a ‘bad’ telenova, but keeping in mind when the book was written, parts of it were very progressive and dangerous in a dictatorship.For those readers who know Saramago, it would be a way to compare his later works to his original start. For the rest of us it’s just not that interesting or exciting.Zeb Kantrowitz zworstblog.blogspot.com
What do You think about Claraboya (2000)?
Tudo de Saramago um dia, já está em Claraboia.
—musecure
Complejo y hermoso como sólo el podía hacerlo.
—Dwatson
