Undoubtedly José Saramago, Nobel Prize 1.998, I am one of the authors of reference, for his views on many issues and some of their essential books as The Gospel According to Jesus Christ , Blindness (same as the director Fernando Meirelles filmed under the name Blindness) and The Cave impossible for me to forget that afternoon in the Company De Jesus, Antigua Guatemala, where he gave a lecture that very few authors can make today, the thought of an author who questions and digs into every corner of your environment, which is not afraid to think and explain what you think .
One can agree or disagree with the ideas of one person, but at the time in which it exposes them to a depth and clarity so irrefutable as he does, I think it's, if not share, at least analyze , is that Saramago was in charge of raising a left and a thinking atheism, consistent with currently little warm to the ideas, and from this trench has become one of the more concrete analysis of what is our world today, with all its contradictions and all such attempts to manipulate culture to make it a mere instrument of domination.
But, and there is always a but, for some time now I wonder how a man who has so clearly the processes by which society is governed and which currently opposes at every opportunity you have to say, has not noticed is an important part of the same gear, it turns out that Mr. Saramago from the opposition has become one of the authors more profitable and more presence in the market, posting an incredible amount of books, including a tourist guide, are not necessarily required and that they keep amazing today in the publishing market, just as do all those ready-made products of both despise.
One can agree or disagree with the ideas of one person, but at the time in which it exposes them to a depth and clarity so irrefutable as he does, I think it's, if not share, at least analyze , is that Saramago was in charge of raising a left and a thinking atheism, consistent with currently little warm to the ideas, and from this trench has become one of the more concrete analysis of what is our world today, with all its contradictions and all such attempts to manipulate culture to make it a mere instrument of domination.
But, and there is always a but, for some time now I wonder how a man who has so clearly the processes by which society is governed and which currently opposes at every opportunity you have to say, has not noticed is an important part of the same gear, it turns out that Mr. Saramago from the opposition has become one of the authors more profitable and more presence in the market, posting an incredible amount of books, including a tourist guide, are not necessarily required and that they keep amazing today in the publishing market, just as do all those ready-made products of both despise.
Nobody knew as Michael Jackson perform, and also suffer, both sides of the culture, reaching all the splendor it can give and all the fallacy that in turn it implies, will go down in history as the first human being changed color and which broke all sales records existing, but also the same as when he did not know how to entertain the masses, he suffered the loneliness and emptiness that lies behind the fame.
While every work of an author conveys the essence of his thought is in their daily lives where we can really see the essence of himself, and this is what allows the work of Théophile Gautier, an approach to work obsessive man who never felt the owner of a unique style, turning then to a total delivery to his work, even at the expense of his own life, with days of writing 15 hours a day, in which the coffee was just what kept him from surrendering to the weight of anguish, and how a man who could never put together a verse assembled one of the most impressive and essential Western history.
He had, like most serious writers, a almost unhealthy obsession for review again and again his word, until, in a pottery work, sifting them achieve accurate, this means we are today just a wasteful expenditure sheets and toner, anything that is out of this world in his time, however, it meant having to send their written text to print, which sent him the galleys, and then review them again and again, with the respective re impressions, same as we hoped Gautier, were of great complexity to the printers, so that publishers, greedy, and often in countries where yes books are sold, they chose to pass the bill for all expenses incurred in such review, thereby sacrificing some of their meager income, a sacrifice that the author did not disdain the sake of the perfection of their work.
Few books really make us attuned to the life of an author, this is certainly one of them, and when it is done in turn by an author who knows the secrets of work, it shows the building, not like a visit tour, but as a work of engineering in which they remain light even the tiniest lines and gear, and top of what was the author and the creation of such works as Seraphita or The Atheist's Mass, leaving the tour this web-flavor, an odd feeling to these works and the realization that a man who was able to, as he said, make the competition to the civil registry in the number of characters that ideological and giving life, she was also human , unfortunately not yet come true the words that Victor Hugo said in his funeral: From now eyes of men will turn to look at faces, not those that have governed, but from those who have thought.