“Ears of corn and trees rise from the ground, we know this, animals that run across the fields, birds that fly above them rise. People rise up with their hopes. Like ears of wheat or a flower, a book can rise. Like a bird, like a banner…” wrote Nobel Prize laureate Jose Saramago in the afterword to this book. “Rising” is one of the most striking novels of the twentieth century, it deeply sinks into the soul, since a rare literary work has such deadly power. In this book there is, everything - passion, rage, fear, desire for light... Each page is a kind of door, entering which, you find yourself in the soul of a person, in its most secret corners. A person can be humiliated, forced to consider himself an outcast, an outcast, a pariah, but it can only be completely trampled physically, and “Rising” is brilliant proof of this