Ten years have passed since the death of our only Nobel Prize for Literature. In this decade without José Saramago, the world has changed a lot.
Global warming, climate change, the emergence of China as a superpower, the planetary “Big Brother” via social networks and advanced biometric data and facial recognition technology. And now, Covid-19, the global pandemic that is changing humanity as we know it through the greatest enemy of all: fear.
So much so that Saramago could create from this world in which he no longer lived. Although ideologically removed from the British writer George Orwell, he created, like the British visionary, dystopias that even today help us to better understand the grotesque in the unbalanced and unequal society that we created.
