For many decades, Jose Saramago has been a staunch defender of the
role of literature to both serve and be perceived as public
discourse. When, in October 1998, he became the first
Portuguese-language author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature, his conviction was supported by the assurance that, at
any rate, this particular writer's literary discourse was
guaranteed to be widely (and globally) publicized. If, as Wlad
Godzich has claimed, the severely limited possibility of public
discourse in the contemporary world is compensated by the
ever-multiplying variety of ways to publicize discourses
("Workshop"), Saramago has taken full advantage of the
opportunities offered in this respect by the Nobel prize as
probably the most effective institutionalized instrument of
publicity that high literary discourse which is produced worldwide
has at its annual disposal. His international visibility greatly
amplified, Saramago could be seen in the last two years shuttling
the globe and making globally publicized statements on behalf of
the many political causes that have attracted his attention and
support.
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