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The Centaur by José Saramago

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Author Biography

Name: Jose Saramago
Birth Date: November 16, 1922
Nationality: Portuguese
Gender: Male

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Biography of Jose Saramago
12157 words, approx. 40.5 pages
In October 1998 José Saramago became the first writer of the Portuguese-speaking world to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy's citation for Saramago called his novels "parables sustained by imagination, compassion, and iron...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Centaur Information
190 words, approx. 1 pages
The Centaur is a 1963 novel by John Updike. It won the National Book Award in 1964. The story concerns George Caldwell, a 1940s schoolteacher, and his son Peter. The two spend three days together in a snowstorm, revealing the relationship between father...


News and Journals
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Stage Directions
Riding The Centaur
02/01/2004: 1,169 words, approx. 4 pages
Centaur Theatre Company With an annual budget of $2.7 million, this much-heralded venue has become the flagship of English-speaking theater in Montreal. Maurice Podbrey, a South African actor/director who learned his stagecraft in Britain, founded Centaur Theatre Company in 1969 and served...
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Review of Contemporary Fiction
The Centaur in the Garden
04/01/2004: 339 words, approx. 1 pages
Moacyr Scliar. The Centaur in the Garden. Trans. Margaret A. Neves. Intro. Ilan Stavans. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2003. 216 pp. Paper: $15.95. (Reprint) First published in 1980 as O Centauro no jardin and translated in 1984, The Centaur in the Garden is...
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The New York Observer
Apparitions of One Man\'d5s Mind: Redon Strove to Render Dreams
1/8/2006: 1,041 words, approx. 4 pages
Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, is devoted to the paintings, drawings and prints of an artist who was a contemporary of the Impressionists and, in so many ways, their antithesis. The ethereal and spooky...
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The New York Observer
Apparitions of One Man's Mind: Redon Strove to Render Dreams
1/8/2006: 1,040 words, approx. 4 pages
Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, is devoted to the paintings, drawings and prints of an artist who was a contemporary of the Impressionists and, in so many ways, their antithesis. The ethereal and spooky...
 


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The Centaur by José Saramago

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