What is José Saramago most famous for?
I am known, I suppose, for the books I have written, for the stories that have found their way into the minds and hearts of readers across the world. Perhaps *Blindness*, with its stark portrayal of a society undone by an epidemic of white blindness, or *The Gospel According to Jesus Christ*, which dared to question the divine narrative with human doubt. My fame, if one can call it that, lies in the persistent attempt to look at the world, at history, at ourselves, not as we are told they should be, but as they are, with all their inherent contradictions and absurdities. It is in the act of seeing, or more often, of failing to see, that much of my work finds its expression.
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