Secession
Michael Wood, 23 March 1995
The Stone Raft
by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
Harvill, 263 pp., £15.99, November 1994,0 00 271321 7 Show More
by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
Harvill, 263 pp., £15.99, November 1994,
“... in the world was ours, but not as a burden or an inheritance, and not in the solemn way in which North American educators claim the Western canon as the track of their own mental history. Borges compares Argentinian writers to the Jews in relation to Western culture, the Irish in relation to English culture: ‘I believe that Argentinians, South Americans in ... ”