José Saramago citáty
José Saramago
Datum narození: 16. listopad 1922
Datum úmrtí: 18. červen 2010
José de Sousa Saramago byl portugalský spisovatel, dramatik a novinář; dosud je jediným portugalským nositelem Nobelovy ceny za literaturu.
Citáty José Saramago
„Kdybych umřel v 60, nic bych nenapsal.“
Originál: (en) I had died when I was 60, I would have written nothing.
Zdroj: [Hopkinson, Amanda, José Saramago obituary, guardian.co.uk, 2010-06-18, 2010-06-19, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/18/jose-saramago-obituary]
„Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.“
— José Saramago, kniha The Cave
Zdroj: The Cave (2000), p. 68 (Vintage 2003)
„There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.“
— José Saramago, kniha The Cave
Zdroj: The Cave (2000), p. 20 (Vintage 2003)
„Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.“
— José Saramago, kniha Blindness
Dentro de nós há uma coisa que não tem nome, essa coisa é o que somos.
Zdroj: Blindness (1995), p. 276
„God is the silence of the universe, and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence.“
Deus é o silêncio do universo, e o homem o grito que dá um sentido a esse silêncio.
Lanzarote Notebooks (1990), quoted in The Notebook, entry for 9 October 2008.
„Besides the conversation of women, it is dreams that keep the world in orbit.“
— José Saramago, kniha Baltasar and Blimunda
Zdroj: Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), p. 107
Kontext: Besides the conversation of women, it is dreams that keep the world in orbit. But dreams also form a diadem of moons, therefore the sky is that splendour inside a man's head, if his head is not, in fact, his own unique sky.
„Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has done.“
— José Saramago, kniha The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Zdroj: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), p. 347; Jesus' last words from the cross.
Kontext: Jesus then realized he had been brought here under false pretences, as the lamb is led to sacrifice and that his life had been planned for death since the very beginning. Remembering the river of blood and suffering that would flow from his side and flood the entire earth, he called out to the open sky where God could be seen smiling, Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has done.
„The following day, no one died.“
— José Saramago, kniha Death with Interruptions
No dia seguinte, ninguém morreu.
Zdroj: Death with Interruptions (2005), p. 1
„Intoxicated mentally by the messianic dream of a Greater Israel which will finally achieve the expansionist dreams of the most radical Zionism; contaminated by the monstrous and rooted 'certitude' that in this catastrophic and absurd world there exists a people chosen by God and that, consequently, all the actions of an obsessive, psychological and pathologically exclusivist racism are justified; educated and trained in the idea that any suffering that has been inflicted, or is being inflicted, or will be inflicted on everyone else, especially the Palestinians, will always be inferior to that which they themselves suffered in the Holocaust, the Jews endlessly scratch their own wound to keep it bleeding, to make it incurable, and they show it to the world as if it were a banner.“
Intoxicados mentalmente pela idéia messiânica de um Grande Israel que torne por fim realidade os sonhos expansionistas do sionismo mais radical, contaminados pela monstruosa e arraigada "certeza" de que neste mundo catastrófico e absurdo existe um povo eleito por Deus e, portanto, estão automaticamente justificadas e autorizadas, em nome dos horrores do passado e dos medos de hoje, todas as ações nascidas de um racismo obsessivo, psicológica e patologicamente exclusivista, educados e formados na idéia de que qualquer sofrimento que tenham infligido, inflijam ou venham a infligir aos demais, em especial aos palestinos, sempre será inferior ao que eles padeceram no Holocausto, os judeus arranham sem cessar sua própria ferida para que não deixe de sangrar, para torná-la incurável, e mostram-na ao mundo como se fosse uma bandeira.
Interview with El País (2002); cited in Princípios (Editora Anita Garibaldi, 2002), p. 88; English translation taken from Phillips The World Turned Upside Down (2010), p. 207.
„I don’t doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I’m convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.“
— José Saramago, kniha The Cave
Zdroj: The Cave (2000), p. 29 (Vintage 2003)
„This is the stuff we're made of, half indifference and half malice.“
— José Saramago, kniha Blindness
Zdroj: Blindness (1995), p. 32
„From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.“
Intervention in the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, February of 1992; quoted in Las leyes antidiscriminatorias en el Mercosur: Impactos de la III conferencia mundial contra el racismo, la discriminación racial, la xenofobia y las formas conexas de intolerancia, Durban, 2001: informe sobre el seminario realizado en Montevideo, 29 y 30 de abril de 2002. Published by Organizaciones Mundo Afro, 2002 163 pages.
„The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife…“
Referring to his grandfather, Jerónimo Meirinho.
Nobel Lecture (1998)
„Deep down, I don't create anything. I'm just someone who simply lifts a rock and exposes what's beneath it. It's not my fault that monsters come out some times.“
Eu, no fundo, não invento nada. Sou apenas alguém que se limita a levantar uma pedra e a pôr à vista o que está por baixo. Não é minha culpa se de vez em quando me saem monstros.
Quoted in the article Literatura: Saramago doutor honoris causa da Universidade Autónoma Madrid. Published by Rádio Mirasado. (March 15th, 2007)
„I think that we do not deserve life, I think that religions have been and continue to be instruments of domination and death.“
Interview to the newspaper "O Globo", 2009.
