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Here’s a social media post (Instagram / Facebook / Twitter-ready) honoring José Saramago and his masterpiece Memorial do Convento (English title: Baltasar and Blimunda ).
✍️ “The world is made of courage and cowardice, but above all, of desire.” jose saramago memorial do convento
José Saramago’s Memorial do Convento : a love story set against the brutal construction of a royal convent. A one-handed soldier & a soul-seeing woman build a flying machine while a king builds a monument to ego. Poetry, rebellion, magic. Read it. ✨📚
📸 [Image: Black-and-white photo of Saramago or the Convent of Mafra] Poetry, rebellion, magic
“Baltasar and Blimunda are not in history. They are in the interstices of history.”
📖✨ Memorial do Convento is not just a novel about the building of a convent—it’s a soaring, aching tale of human will, forbidden love, and the weight of royal ambition. They are in the interstices of history
Together, they dream of flight—literally building a flying machine called Passarola —driven by passion, curiosity, and resistance against a world that crushes the poor.
If you’ve never read Saramago, start here. It’s a novel that will lift you off the ground.
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