The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose SaramagoMen are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
Jose Saramago...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.
Jose Saramago