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,
“... been enacted, could fail to recognise that this anguished woman is the widow of a carpenter called Joseph.’ This is not a simulation of Christ’s life, but a recreation of it, and when the writer repeatedly, ironically speaks of ‘this gospel’, he means not the real and only one, some sort of competitor for Matthew, Mark, Luke and ... ”