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Escola Secundária EB3 Dr. Jorge Correia – Tavira PORTUGAL

Escola Secundária EB3 Dr. Jorge Correia – Tavira PORTUGAL. eTWINNING PROJECT: NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS OF LITERATURE. José saramago – 1998 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. CLASS: 10º A2 TEACHER: Ana Cristina Matias SCHOOL YEAR: 2007/2008. 1. The Man. José Saramago. 1.1 José Saramago.

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Escola Secundária EB3 Dr. Jorge Correia – Tavira PORTUGAL

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  1. Escola Secundária EB3 Dr. Jorge Correia – Tavira PORTUGAL eTWINNING PROJECT: NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS OF LITERATURE José saramago – 1998 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER CLASS: 10º A2 TEACHER: Ana Cristina Matias SCHOOL YEAR: 2007/2008

  2. 1. The Man José Saramago

  3. 1.1 José Saramago • Son and grandson of uneducated peasants. • His grandfather, Jerónimo Meirinho, was a shepherd and a story teller, even though he was illiterate. • His grandmother, Josefa Caixinha, had an unusual beauty. • His father’s grandparents, João and Carolina, are those who he “never learned to love”.

  4. José Saramago • His mother’s name was Maria da Piedade. • His father, José de Sousa, was a soldier in the First World War, in France, and then became a farmer. • Later, he went to Lisbon, and became a police officer.

  5. José Saramago • NAME: José de Sousa Saramago • PLACE OF BIRTH: Village of Azinhaga, council of Golegã, Ribatejo, Portugal • BIRTH: November 16th, 1922. Sílvia Fernandes and Marina Amorim, 10º A2

  6. 1.2 José Saramago: district place of birth RIBATEJO

  7. José Saramago: district place of birth RIBATEJO Region in the centre of Portugal which includes the lands of the banks of the river Tagus, and so it has excellent agricultural resources. The River Tagus runs through this area from NE to SW. Ribatejo is famous for its wines, good country fields for bulls and horses, typical prairie workmen (campinos) and Portuguese bull fights.

  8. José Saramago: districtplace of birth Santarém, Ribatejo’s main city

  9. José Saramago: council place of birth GOLEGÃ One of Ribatejo’s councils, divided into two parish councils: AZINHAGA, birth place of José Saramago; GOLEGÃ, known for its traditional horse fair.

  10. AZINHAGA José Saramago: homeland A. Rita Ribeiro and Joana Pereira, 10º A2 • Parish Council of Golegã’s municipality, very traditional and charming. • José Saramago misses his homeland but remembers it with joy. In one of his books, he says so and adds that he remembers his family members and friends who remain there.

  11. José Saramago 1.3 From childhood to adulthood Portuguese writer winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

  12. The "Problem" of his Childhood When José Saramago’s father, José da Silva, went to enrol his son at school, his enrolment was rejected because his son didn’t have the same name as his father. Saramago’s father had to change his name from José da Silva to José Saramago, a family nickname. When he was 3,6 and 10 years old

  13. JOSÉ SARAMAGO: • At the age of two, he went to live with his parents in Lisbon. • Only at the age of eleven did he receive his first book (O Mistério do Moinho). • At the age of twelve, because of economic problems, he had to change to a Technical School. • But when he was eighteen, he already attended the Library of Palácio das Galveias and in that library he tried to read everything he could.

  14. JOSÉ SARAMAGO: • In 1944, he married a painter, Ilda Reis, from whom he divorced in 1970. • In 1947, his only daughter, Violante, was born and he published his first novel “Terra do Pecado” (The Land of Sin, not translated yet). • He worked as a mechanic, a technical designer, an administrative civil servant in the Health and Welfare Departments, a production manager and a translator. • In 1949, he wrote “Clarabóia” (Skylight), which was refused by the publisher.

  15. JOSÉ SARAMAGO: In 1966, he published his first poetry book “Os Poemas Possíveis” ( Possible Poems). In 1970, he published a new book of poetry, named “Provavelmente Alegria” (Probably Joy). From 1968, he was a columnist and wrote regular newspaper articles, joining them subsequently in the book “Deste Mundo e do Outro” (From this World and the Other,1971) and “A bagagem do Viagante” (The Traveller’s Baggage, 1973). Diogo Carmo and Helena Martins, 10ºA2

  16. 1.4 JOSE SARAMAGO’S LIFE AFTER THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION On April 25th, 1974, Portugal became a democratic country and Saramago was called to work in the Ministry of Social Communication. 1975 – Saramago was appointed deputy director of a national newspaper, Diário de Notícias, but he was fired on November 25th. Saramago dedicated himself totally to writing and translations, and since 1976 he has made his living exclusively from his literary work.

  17. Many were the books he wrote and prizes he won, such as: • 1980- What will I do with this book? (a play) and Risen from the floor (a novel). He was awarded the «Prémio Cidade de Lisboa» and «Prémio Internacional Ennio Flaiano, Italy». • 1982- He received two awards «PEN Clube Português» and the «Prémio Literário do Município de Lisboa», for his new success, Baltasar and Blimunda. • 1985 – He was awarded the prize «Comendador da Ordem Militar de Santiago de Espada». Milton Brito and António Kamota, 10ºA2

  18. 1.5 José Saramago & Pilar del Río María del Pilar del Río Sánchez had never heard of José Saramago until the day she readthe novel Baltasar and Blimunda (1982). After each page she read, she began thinking that Saramago was a man that had an absolutely modern and contemporaneous view of the world.

  19. Their first meeting was in Lisbon, and they found out they were both great admires of the twentieth century Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa. After six months, they met once again in Seville (Spain) and then became closer and closer.

  20. Saramago’s relationship with Pilar del Río began in 1986. After two years they got married. They married on the 16th July 1988, in Castril, Spain.

  21. In 1992, he went to live to Lanzarote, Canary Islands (Spain), because by then José Saramago was very dissapointed with the unfair criticism of some Portuguese politicians regarding his novels, namely, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. As his wife had a house in Lanzarote, they moved to this island where he could write in peace. Andreia Domingos and Andreia Sousa, 10º A2

  22. 9th of October 1998 1.6 José Saramago’ s Nobel Prize Award

  23. In 1998, The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to José Saramago for the collection of his works, which had gained great popularity after the novels Baltasar and Blimunda and Blindness, among others. In hisspeech, Saramago talked abouthis mother’s parents and thanked them.

  24. One of the Writer’s reactions José Saramago: «I’m Portuguese, I don’t want and I can’t be anything else, but by varied circumstances my country grew, which is the best thing we can wish ... I wasn’t born for this ... The fact of being a Nobel prize winner doesn’t mean that I’m the only one that deserved it in Portugal. Fernando Pessoa deserved a thousand Nobel Prizes.» Hélio Queimado and Tatiana Nascimento, 10ºA2

  25. 2. Saramgo’s literary work Saramago has a vast literary work. He has already published short stories, novels, poetry, diaries and drama plays, among others. . • Almost Object (1978) • Hearing (1979) • The Tale of the Unknown Island(1997) • The Biggest Flower of the World(2001) 2.1 Short stories

  26. Almost Object Compilation of six short stories: • - Chair; • - Embargo • - Reflow • - Things • - Centaur • - Revenge

  27. The Tale of the Unknown Island • In the short story “The Tale of the Unknown Island”, a servant goes to the petitions door of the palace and asks the king for a boat to go in search of an unknown island, but the king denied the existence of an unknown island. After having insisted and with good arguments, he obtains the boat. He then sets out in search of his island, followed by the cleaning lady. João dos Santos and Hélio Valente, 10ºA2

  28. 2.2 NOVELS

  29. Since he is a writer, Saramago has already published 14 novels: Terra do Pecado, 1947( The Land of Sin) Manual de Pintura e Caligrafia, 1977(Manual of painting and hand-writing) Levantado do Chão, 1980 (Risen from the ground) The year of the death of Ricardo Reis,1984

  30. The Stone Raft, 1986 The History of the siege of Lisbon , 1989 Baltasar and Blimunda , 1991

  31. Blindness , 1995 All The Names, 1997 The Cave, 2000

  32. The Double, 2002 Seeing , 2004 Death at intervals, 2005

  33. Baltasar and Blimunda The novel’s action takes place in the kingdom of D. João V (18th century) then it focuses on the building of the Mafra Convent, the first air navigation experience by the priest Bartolomeu Lourenço and two fictional characters, Baltasar and Blimunda.

  34. The year of the death of Ricardo Reis Ricardo Reis, a fictitious name and character of the famous poet Fernando Pessoa, arrived in Lisbon, coming from Brasil, because he missed his friends. But, his creator, Fernando Pessoa, had already died and he would only have some more months of life to enjoy the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. Ângelo Leal and Tiago Avô, 10 A2

  35. 2.3 Diaries In these diaries, José Saramago portrays events of the years in which these were written. The first of these was the Diary from Lanzarote, I-1994 and the last one the Diary from Lanzarote, V.

  36. Diaries • Diary from Lanzarote I, 1994 • Diary from Lanzarote II, 1995 • Diary from Lanzarote III, 1996 • Diary from Lanzarote IV, 1997 • Diary from Lanzarote V, 1998

  37. Poetry books 1966 - Os Poemas Possíveis (The Possible Poems) 1970 - Provavelmente Alegria (Probably Joy) 1975 - O Ano de 1993 ( The year of 1993) 2.4 poetry

  38. (THE POSSIBLE POEMS) (PROBABLY JOY) This was José Saramago’s first work in poetry (1996). These poems demand liberty, fraternity and the fight for good values. A disguised fight, because the repression in the sixties was very severe. It was a time when Salazar, a dictator, ruled Portugal. Poems of shadow and light, of darkness and sea, of typical Portuguese bitterness and sadness, but also of love.

  39. ( The year of 1993 ) Rhyme less poems which talk about the future of Saramago’s writing. Poems of despair but also of hope. Tânia do Carmo and Verónica Rodrigues, 10º A2

  40. 2.5 José Saramago's Plays

  41. The Plays... José Saramago has already written several plays: • The night (1979)‏ • What will I do with this book? (1980)‏ • The second life of Francis of Assisi’ (1987)‏ • In Nomine Dei (1993)‏ • Don Giovanni (2005)

  42. The Night • It is set in a newspaper editor office, in Lisbon, on the night that became famous in Portuguese History: April 24th to the 25th, 1974 • The irony of this play is also set on this night in which the editors and journalists entered in conflict.

  43. What Will I Do With This Book? • The question is asked by the great Portuguese poet of the 16th century, Camões, near the end of the play, and the book to which he refers is of course Os Lusíadas. • The play is set between Camões’ arrival to Lisbon (from India and Mozambique), and the troubles he had to publish “Os Lusíadas”. An epic poem that praises the Portuguese people.

  44. The Second Life of Francis of Assisi • In this play there is a fight between reason and strength. • We’re in 1986, computores already exist, and a lot has changed. “Things aren’t what they were”, is said by one of the characters. “There have been many changes and not all can be seen”.

  45. In Nomine Dei A quotation of the play: «Between man, with his reason, and the animals with their instinct, who would be better suited to govern over life? If dogs had created a god they would fight over a name to give him.» Kush Lescrooge, 10º A2

  46. José Saramago’s books have already been translated into 42 other languages and some have been adapted to opera and to cinema.

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