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One of the nice things about translation is that a reader can still have a steady stream of very good material from an author, even after that author dies.
A good case in point would be Jose Saramago, who died earlier this year at the age of 87. Although he’s certainly not been underrepresented in English, there still remains a lot of good stuff out there that’s never been translated. On March 11, 2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will be publishing Small Memories (which has already been published in the UK and was scheduled to appear here before Saramago’s death).
And then there’s more. As Leora Skolkin-Smith reminds us via Toby Lichtig in her essay on Saramago in the current issue of The Quarterly Conversation:
Far more rewarding are his musings on literature, language, theology. “God,” he writes, in an echo from The Lanzarote Notebooks (as yet unpublished in English), “is the silence of the universe and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence.”
And Saramago’s Wikipedia page lists quite a bit more still out there to be Englished.
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Not to mention the out-of-print Manual of Painting and Calligraphy. Anyone know why that’s not been available for many years?
Cain (2009) and Raised From the Ground (1980) are coming out in the UK, in July and September respectively.
I lucked out on Manual, and found an old beat up library edition being sold for 30. Great book, but not up to par with the rest of his stuff.