Twentieth-century Portugal saw dramatic political and social change. The monarchy was abolished, and a republic installed (1910), soon giving way to a long-lasting dictatorship (1926); a transition to
Saramago's Labyrinths is the first book-length study to focus on the relationship between form and the content in Saramago's writing, paying particular attention to Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness)
European and US scholars of literature contribute to the recent interest in digression not as weakness in a work but as a deliberate strategy by authors. The topics include towards a theory of plotles
