José Saramago - How Characters Became the Masters and the Author Their Apprentice.doc

How Characters Became the Masters and the Author Their Apprentice The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four oclock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife. My mothers parents lived on this scarcity, on the small breeding of pigs that after weaning were sold to the neighbours in our village of Azinhaga in the province of Ribatejo. Their names were Jerónimo Meirinho and Josefa Caixinha and t