Words Are My Matter on All the Names: “...soon after that, All the Names, perhaps the most Kafkaesque of his novels, with its satire of a monstrous bureaucracy.”
Words Are My Matter on The Cave: “...The Stone Raft, The Cave, and several other books (of which more later)—was entirely successful.”
Words Are My Matter on The Double: “A reader who shares that fascination will find this (and later The Double) a treasure.”
Words Are My Matter on The Notebook: “Saramago will tell us what the book is about—though when he wrote this in The Notebook he wasn't talking about his novel, but about the world he saw in May 2009.”
Words Are My Matter on The Stone Raft: “My course of reading—The Late Ricardo Reyes (also published as The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis), The Stone Raft, The Cave, and several other books...”
Artful on The Stone Raft: “In the opening lines of José Saramago's novel The Stone Raft”