José Saramago

José Saramago was a Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate known for his unique narrative style and philosophical themes.


"Old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see us, he or she would not recognise him -- or herself in us, 'Who's that looking at me so sadly,' he or she would say."
José Saramago