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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
El mensaje que quiere transmitir, genial. La forma de transmitirlo, no tanto. No lo he podido terminar, 400 páginas de viaje espiritual sin sentido no me apetecen, la verdad.
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Melhor que a Morte de Ricardo Reis (do que apanhei pelos resumos no 12º ano pelo menos)
The same year that Portugal and Spain joined the European Union, José Saramago imagined the physical and geographical detachment of the Iberian Peninsula from the old continent. It might sound like a pamphlet denouncing Europe's new stranglehold on the sovereignty and integrity of these two nations with flourishing histories. However, the story tends more towards farce, and this is not surprising when we learn about the taste of the Portuguese novelist's joke.
This fact describes the wanderings of five individuals and a dog on the peninsula adrift between Europe and the Americas. Nothing seems to link these characters except their sexual nature, male and female, and their vague common experience of singular telluric signs. They will try to agree on the few resources at their disposal. But they will also unite in a sort of immediate emergency.
We don't believe in this geological accident story, but that's not what matters. Saramago successfully transmits his love of words to us, and we feel his pleasure in telling us about a collective adventure that makes us grow through his deep respect for human nature.
This fact describes the wanderings of five individuals and a dog on the peninsula adrift between Europe and the Americas. Nothing seems to link these characters except their sexual nature, male and female, and their vague common experience of singular telluric signs. They will try to agree on the few resources at their disposal. But they will also unite in a sort of immediate emergency.
We don't believe in this geological accident story, but that's not what matters. Saramago successfully transmits his love of words to us, and we feel his pleasure in telling us about a collective adventure that makes us grow through his deep respect for human nature.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Jose Saramago is not an author you want to read if you like to have everything wrapped up with a bow and fully explained in the end. In novel after novel, Saramago drops characters into bizarre circumstances and very rarely (if ever) explains exactly how or why those circumstances came about.
In this particular tale, Saramago has the entire Iberian Peninsula cleave from the rest of Europe and begin a journey sailing out to sea. The story focuses on 5 people and one dog on the peninsula as they attempt to understand how their lives and homeland have changed. All five characters had improbable events happen to them right around the time when the peninsula split from the mainland. The characters try to determine if these occurances are directly related to the fracture of the peninsula from Europe. The book contains social and political undertones like many other Saramago novels. Also like other Saramago novels the books is intellectual and there is more to gather from reading it other than the main plotline. Saramago novels are allegorical and like the others "The Stone Raft" is commenting on society.
Saramago is one of my favorite authors and I found The Stone Raft to fit in well with his other works. I didn't enjoy it quite as much as I liked several of his other novels Blindness, All the Names, The Cave or The Double. Saramago also has a very unique writing style with lots of run on sentances and no quotation marks. This can be a challenge for readers who are new to Saramago's works. In my opinion it is worth the effort and besides you soon enough become used to his writing style.
In this particular tale, Saramago has the entire Iberian Peninsula cleave from the rest of Europe and begin a journey sailing out to sea. The story focuses on 5 people and one dog on the peninsula as they attempt to understand how their lives and homeland have changed. All five characters had improbable events happen to them right around the time when the peninsula split from the mainland. The characters try to determine if these occurances are directly related to the fracture of the peninsula from Europe. The book contains social and political undertones like many other Saramago novels. Also like other Saramago novels the books is intellectual and there is more to gather from reading it other than the main plotline. Saramago novels are allegorical and like the others "The Stone Raft" is commenting on society.
Saramago is one of my favorite authors and I found The Stone Raft to fit in well with his other works. I didn't enjoy it quite as much as I liked several of his other novels Blindness, All the Names, The Cave or The Double. Saramago also has a very unique writing style with lots of run on sentances and no quotation marks. This can be a challenge for readers who are new to Saramago's works. In my opinion it is worth the effort and besides you soon enough become used to his writing style.
Disse a leitora cansada de ler durante tantos dias Que leitura!, e sentia-se como se tivesse sido arrastada lá com o barco de pedra para chegar até ao lugar onde chegou, Aqui ao fim.
Caro leitor das minhas humildes palavras, se não está a perceber por que razão estou a dar um chuto nas regras gramaticais das quais tanto gosto e faço questão de aplicar, pois então leia o livro e aí saberá. Foi o primeiro que li de Saramago e se por um lado me faz espécie a história aqui contada, por outro lado acredito conhecer bem os motivos da mesma. No entanto eu, como leitora, precisava de mais, mais propriamente em termos de desenvolvimento da narrativa em si - apesar de gostar de ficar a pensar sobre as histórias e os seus propósitos, eu preciso de um caminho/fim que não me deixe tão perdida (mas agora que escrevo isto, concluo que talvez tenha sido esta mesma a intenção), para poder apreciá-la completamente. Mas gostei imenso da forma como está escrita, esta aparente desorganização está tão organizada que seríamos capazes de imitar as suas regras bem definidas.
Caro leitor das minhas humildes palavras, se não está a perceber por que razão estou a dar um chuto nas regras gramaticais das quais tanto gosto e faço questão de aplicar, pois então leia o livro e aí saberá. Foi o primeiro que li de Saramago e se por um lado me faz espécie a história aqui contada, por outro lado acredito conhecer bem os motivos da mesma. No entanto eu, como leitora, precisava de mais, mais propriamente em termos de desenvolvimento da narrativa em si - apesar de gostar de ficar a pensar sobre as histórias e os seus propósitos, eu preciso de um caminho/fim que não me deixe tão perdida (mas agora que escrevo isto, concluo que talvez tenha sido esta mesma a intenção), para poder apreciá-la completamente. Mas gostei imenso da forma como está escrita, esta aparente desorganização está tão organizada que seríamos capazes de imitar as suas regras bem definidas.