Stephen Baxter vs. José Saramago
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Stephen Baxter
1929 – 2020
Stephen Baxter may refer to:Stephen Baxter (author), English science fiction author Stephen Baxter (footballer), Northern Irish football manager and ex-player Stephen B. Baxter (1929–2020), American historian Stephen Baxter (historian) (1969–2026), historian of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England Steven Baxter, a character in the British drama The Second Coming Steve Baxter (entrepreneur), Australian investor and entrepreneur Steve Baxter (musician) (1952–2020), American songwriter and guitarist
"Self-doubt is part of being human...but the main thing is to get on with the business of survival."
José Saramago
1922 – 2010
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
"We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation, our contact wi…"
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