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Contrary to what one might think, Saramago’s Seeing (2006) is not just a novel. The Portuguese Nobel Prize winner’s book is not simply an allegorical tale, a thought experiment, or a huge ‘what if?’1 As the work’s original title Ensaio Sobre a Lucidez (literally ‘Essay on Lucidity’), suggests, Saramago’s work has perhaps more important purposes than telling a story alone.
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Mazzocca, M. (2023). The Color of Democracy. In: Baltrusch, B., Salzani, C., Vanhoutte, K. (eds) A Responsibility to the World: Saramago, Politics, Philosophy. iBroLiT – Estudos Iberorrománicos de Literatura e Tradutoloxía. Ibero-Romance Studies in Literature and Translatology, vol 9. Frank & Timme, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.57088/978-3-7329-8985-0_6
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