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I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.
I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.
Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
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- Jose Saramago
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- Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Jose Saramago: recorded author lifetime 1922–2010. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37060 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is jose-saramago; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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