tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post8485487749664375253..comments2023-12-22T10:17:24.280-05:00Comments on Bookpuddle: A Revival of SaramagoCiprianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00254338542624853230noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-34649330741750207082015-07-17T04:27:51.578-04:002015-07-17T04:27:51.578-04:00The day I’ll never forget is the 17th of June: I g...The day I’ll never forget is the 17th of June: I got married. Let me not count the years, the months, the days, the minutes…. It’s depressing!! I said ‘YES’. Why?<br />3 weeks ago, a 75 year-old woman start having a row with her 79 year old husband. She told him to ‘shut up’; he denied and challenged her to do something about it. She grabbed a small axe and planted it on his skull. Then she called their ‘kids’, stating “I had enough of the bastard. He is dead”. The ‘kids’ were not surprised said to the police; they were expecting it sooner or later. It just happened quite later. This 75 year old woman had enough for long enough time(46 years of marriage!!)<br />I am not the biggest fan of short stories. They linger shortly into readers’ minds and memory. People need time to get attached with the setting, the characters, the situations; you don’t get that time in a short story. It’s like a flash of lighting. But writers take prices for short stories, and they could be a good compromise for the summer holidays. So read carefully “the Dead Hand grabs You” and “I Dream of Biting Cip with my Red, Red Teeth”. They are vividly imagined meditations on memory, justice and revenge. Have I told you that I have a red car? Just like Isserley.<br /> Saramago’s widow, Pilar del Rio, is probably right when she believes that ‘Skylight is the gateway into Saramago's work and will be a real discovery for its readers’. But she talks nonsense when she suggests that ‘As if a perfect circle had closed.As if death did not exist’. When someone dies a circle is closed and when a circle is closed, then you have created a zero( 0). The point for me is to create the figure of 8(my lucky number), the symbol of infinity which reflects the balance of opposites, male and female, day and night, dark and light and the union of 2 equals. Saramago was already a Nobel laureate and an accomplished writer and his widow had every right to decide on what to publish and what not.<br />I spotted in New Yorker,Margaret Atwood's "The Stone Mattress".I think it's hilarious;brings memories of the first time I was thrown out of Criminal Law.The whole amphitheatre was laughing,the lecturer was not!!<br />By the way your friend’s short-story is for A-LEVEL exams. In the beginning he notices a symbol on the rock. Does he use it later on? NO! Why is this man digging? I would have played with the meaning of 2 words: Pluto (Wealth) and Pluton. Last month I was reading and writing summaries for my kid’s Literature exams. Two of the writers I had to read were Louis Sepulveda and John Fowles.John is so exceptional!!<br />Please delete all my posts,all the stupid irrelevant posts. GO ON.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12546017.post-82097595591520257842015-07-14T14:45:22.573-04:002015-07-14T14:45:22.573-04:00How wonderful to find not one but three new books ...How wonderful to find not one but three new books by your favorite author from whom you never thought there would be anything new.Stefaniehttp://somanybooksblog.comnoreply@blogger.com