by José Saramago · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466312806
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«El hombre duplicado» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback, 448 pages, in Spanish.
Tertuliano Máximo Afonso, a divorced history teacher, sees in a rented movie a man identical to him, with no blood link between them. His unease turns into an obsession to locate his double and understand how they share features and voice. That search confronts him with questions about identity, singularity, and experience as a mold of the person.
The novel was originally published in Portuguese as O homem duplicado in 2002; the Spanish translation of this edition (2004) is by Pilar del Río.
For readers of contemporary fiction, especially those seeking intrigue and reflection on identity in the work of a Nobel Prize in Literature winner.
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
