Even Death Would Choose Life
In the celebrations of Jose Saramago´s centenary By David Rosh Pina " The journey never ends, only travelers end. And even they can still go on in the memory, the remembrance, the narrative," wrote José Saramago, the Portuguese writer and laureate of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literatu r e for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion, and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality.” Born into a family of landless peasants in Azinhaga do Ribatejo, Portugal, on November 16 th , 1922, he ended his journey, aged 87. on June 18 th , 2010, in Las Palmas, Canarias, the Spanish Atlantic islands. This year he completed 100 years but his journey goes on in our memory. To pay tribute to José Saramago on the centenary of his birth , the embassy of Portugal in Tel Aviv organized an event in the central public library of the city, Beit Ariela Shaar Zion Library, with the support of t...