a journalist José Saramago, Portuguese writer and playwright, 84, whose greatest achievement was undoubtedly the achievement of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998.
This man has been writing since 1947 and has won numerous literary prizes. They say that he maintains an exquisite style and commitment to the world that is not due to partisan interests, but it is true that in 1969 he joined the Portuguese Communist Party and joined in 1974 to the "Carnation Revolution " to end the dictatorship and establish democracy. It is considered one of the great figures of XXI century.
His book entitled "Essay on the lucidity" is about what would happen if in the elections, over 80% of the population of a city or a country decides to cast blank ballots. This question is the starting point for the author to articulate his novel. In it, the inhabitants of a fictional city, capital of a state that could be anything, decide, individually, to vote en masse and in black. Saramago
analyze this situation from a very personal perspective on how they see the world. The answer that the ruling would give an action of this type is the central theme of the novel. Around him articulate other small stories: those of different people, from the prime minister of police inspector must investigate the situation, which give their particular view of the facts. Their common point is that while at first everyone thinks that white vote due to a conspiracy, then realize that what happens is that there has been a small peaceful and democratic revolution of some citizens unhappy with politicians and the kind of politics.
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