- Did the government make the right decision in choosing to deal with the maphia?
- Why does Saramago make the formal choice not to capitalize names?
- Why does Saramago have death fall in love with a musician? Is there any significance to this?
- Why make death fall in the love at all? Saramago’s intention in the first half of the book is pretty obvious; i.e. to show what would happen if people stopped dying. Second half is more mysterious and far more poetic. Does anyone have any hunches as to what Saramago’s intention with the second half of the book was?
Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. Here's a link to his Nobel Lecture.
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We'll be meeting to discuss this book on May 13th at the Main Library in Conference Rm 3 at noon. Feel free to bring a lunch.
