{"id":255156,"date":"2007-08-27T18:30:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T18:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/27\/jose-saramago-in-the-times-magazine\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:44","slug":"jose-saramago-in-the-times-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/27\/jose-saramago-in-the-times-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Saramago in the Times Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernanda Eberstadt has a lengthly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/26\/magazine\/26saramago-t.html?ref=magazine\">profile<\/a> of Jose Saramago in yesterday&#8217;s <i>New York Times Magazine<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Not a lot about his fiction in this piece, but it does present a charming look at the octogenarian Nobel Prize winner, who, apparently, isn&#8217;t all that popular:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yet Saramago also often appears to be disliked. In part this is the resentment of a country that has long been dominated by a small elite. In part, it is a matter of Saramago\u2019s own unaccommodating personality. Everywhere I went in Lisbon in June, people described him as \u201ccold,\u201d \u201carrogant,\u201d \u201cunsympathetic.\u201d When my interpreter inquired at a <span class=\"caps\">DVD<\/span> store if a documentary about Saramago was in stock, the young salesman, startled by the request, replied, laughing, \u201cI hope not!&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernanda Eberstadt has a lengthly profile of Jose Saramago in yesterday&#8217;s New York Times Magazine. Not a lot about his fiction in this piece, but it does present a charming look at the octogenarian Nobel Prize winner, who, apparently, isn&#8217;t all that popular: Yet Saramago also often appears to be disliked. In part this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,5286,5296],"class_list":["post-255156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-jose-saramago","tag-new-york-times-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362866,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255156\/revisions\/362866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}