José Saramago
1922 – 2010 · Portugal · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1998
Blindness and the parable of institutional collapse.
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- Franz Kafka
1883 – 1924 · Literature
Saramago's parables of impersonal systems work in the Kafkan mode.
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