The Clairvoyant Zoopraxiscope

I have finished the Marias and am considering adding Saramago to my list of books being read, which includes War and Peace, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Sarah Gridley's Weather Eye Open, Testimony, and the occasional magazine. Saramago would be a worthy successor; they both fall in the category of European writers who write in long, flowing paragraphs and don't trouble themselves with pedestrian concerns like plot (one of my favorite concerns, though I'm willing to enjoy work that doesn't honor it). The difference being that Saramago's dialogue all flows into one stream, with no clear demarcation, so you get a true sense of conversational caophony--Marias's dialogue is more blocky, conservative, although he too pulls a Sebald with his structure.