Forever Young by Alphaville is a song that comes mind when I think about the subject of this book. The line “Do you really want to live forever young?” kinda sums up the topic that this book explores. Is eternal life really all that? Jose Saramago explores this thought exercise in Death with Interruptions in […]
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I did not expect to love this novel as much as I did. I was so hooked from the beginning. Given that I criticized Piglia heavily last week on how dense the text was with such a lack of dialogue I thought I would be saying the same for Saramago, but thi…
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I did not expect to love this novel as much as I did. I was so hooked from the beginning. Given that I criticized Piglia heavily last week on how dense the text was with such a lack of dialogue I thought I would be saying the same for Saramago, but thi…
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Week 11 yay we’re almost done! For this week I read Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago which I thoroughly enjoyed. I found this story really surprising and unexpected in a good way, truth be told I never really knew too much about the books that I chose to read I kinda picked based off […]
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Death with interruptions is a story that is “torn between the hope of living forever and the fear of never dying”.(pg74). The novel is divided into two halves. The novel’s first part begins with the shocking news of no death recorded in an unnamed city on New Year as soon as the clock strikes 12. […]
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I really enjoyed this week’s novel, and it is probably my favourite by far in this course. The novel allowed me to take on a different perspective in considering the meaning and purpose of death. Saramago takes a very intriguing approach in exploring the topic of death. He specifically does so through an interesting thought […]
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“It’s also true, as we well know, that there were a few cruel families who allowed themselves to be carried away by their own incurable inhumanity and went so far as to employ the services of the maphia to get rid of the miserable human remains […] (84) The natural world has the so-called ‘force […]
I want to start by saying this was a super entertaining book to read, though it did tend to drag on a bit in certain areas, especially when it was listing things, i enjoyed the sociopolitical commentary on the business of death and how it plays out in …
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I want to start by saying this was a super entertaining book to read, though it did tend to drag on a bit in certain areas, especially when it was listing things, i enjoyed the sociopolitical commentary on the business of death and how it plays out in …
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This week I read, Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago. To be honest, this was a very difficult read for me. While reading this book, I realized that I have actually never read a philosophical book before, so this book was very tough. I think the …
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