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Never stop dreaming! A metaphor for human quest.
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Never stop dreaming! A metaphor for human quest.

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The Tale of the Unknown island

The story of a determined woman that decides to change her life.

The story of a man with a strong will.

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An invitation to each one of us to take control of our life and dream our own dreams.

The story of two dreamers.

"The king’s house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting at the door for favours..."

"The king’s philosopher, when he had nothing to do, would come and sit beside me and watch me darning the pages’ socks, and sometimes he would start philosophizing, he used to say that each man is an island, but since that had nothing to do with me, being a woman, I paid no attention to him, what do you think, That you have to leave the island to see the island, that we can’t see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves."

He was born in 1922 in Azinhaga, Portugal and he died in 2010. He won the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1998. He wrote a long list of books and he is best known for the following titles: Blindness; All the Names; The Stone Raft; The Cave, The Double, etc. "The Tale of the Unknown Island" was written in 1997.

José SaramagoProfile

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SummaryThis is the story of a man who wants to sail the world in order to try to find the unknown island. He visits the King and asks for a boat to try to find an island that nobody has found yet. He strongly believes that it exists!

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This tale is written with a simple yet elegant language. "The Tale of the Unknown Island" lacks punctuation and conventional paragraph breaks. As in all his other major novels, Saramago uses only commas and full strops. “Punctuation is like traffic signs, too much of it distracts you from the road on which you travel”, he once said.

The Harbour masterCautious

The Kingfearful and doubtful

The Cleaning WomanDetermined and courageous

The Man (who asks for a boat)Persistent, confident and brave

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