«Second only to Philip Roth». But...
To the literary critic Harold Bloom, the comparison with Auschwitz was “an unforgivable failure of imagination and humanity” on the part of a novelist he considers “second only to Philip Roth” among living writers. “Saramago’s novels are endlessly inventive, endlessly good-natured, endlessly skillful,” Bloom told me, “but it baffles me why the man can’t grow up politically. In 2007, to be a Portuguese Stalinist means you’re simply not living in the real world.”
In The New York Times, 26 Agosto 2007
In The New York Times, 26 Agosto 2007
// jmf @ terça-feira, agosto 28, 2007 
