Hi everyone! This week I read “The Book of Chameleons” by José Eduardo Agualusa. I am going to be very honest and say that I did not enjoy this book, mainly because I found it difficult to follow and mildly uninteresting. However, this book discusses important themes of identity, truth and historical impact. It also […]
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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 […]
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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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 …
Posted in Blogs, Saramago | Tagged with death, life, morals, Philosophy, religion
Let me to get right into this, the book seemed to be split into two parts, with separate protagonists in each: society in the first section and death in the second. The author uses long, twisted sentences without punctuation (hence, the title). Reading this was a little difficult for me at times. Because of the […]
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“As in a game of chess, death advanced her queen. A few more moves should open the way to a checkmate, and the game will end.” (186) Is the wish for immortality a blessing or a curse? That answer seems simple. What begins as a celebration devolves into the unknown. Humanity’s fear of death is […]
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This week’s book was Death with Interruptions by José Saramago and it really got me thinking about the topic of death, thinking about mortality in a whole new way. The story describes what would happen if people simply stopped dying, something that seems like it would be celebrated at first. But Saramago shows how the […]
I was very excited to read “Death with Interruptions” since I thought the idea of imagining a world without death was so fascinating. This book is obviously fictionalized, but many aspects of it feel very realistic. Death is such a complex idea that is imagined very differently across various individuals, cultures, and religions. For myself […]
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Jose Eduardo Agualusa’s novel, “The Book of Chameleons,” is an imaginative novel that explores the themes of identity and memory through the lens of a gecko living in the house of Felix Ventura. The gecko undergoes life with feelings and thoughts adjacent to those of humans, capable of processing human behaviours and interactions. This made […]
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