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**Styparty** · 10-01-2009, 07:48 AM

He achieves his famous syntatic style already in Levantado do Ch?o. I once had the pleasure of visiting a Saramago exhibition and I read personal documents explaining how he found his voice. He went to Alentejo to do research and interviewed people that spoke in that way, full of old sayings, asides, parallel stories, etc. Saramago wanted to capture their oral speech and wrote the novel like that. He had already started writing the novel before he found this voice and so rewrote the beginning to fit the new style

What I give credit to Baltasar and Blimunda for is for introducing the magical realist element in his novels.

10-01-2009, 07:48 AM	#3
Styparty Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 604 Senior Member	He achieves his famous syntatic style already in Levantado do Ch?o. I once had the pleasure of visiting a Saramago exhibition and I read personal documents explaining how he found his voice. He went to Alentejo to do research and interviewed people that spoke in that way, full of old sayings, asides, parallel stories, etc. Saramago wanted to capture their oral speech and wrote the novel like that. He had already started writing the novel before he found this voice and so rewrote the beginning to fit the new style What I give credit to Baltasar and Blimunda for is for introducing the magical realist element in his novels.
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