by José Saramago · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466313766
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«El hombre duplicado» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (438 pages, in Spanish).
Tertuliano Máximo Afonso, a history teacher, rents a movie on a friend's recommendation and discovers in it an actor identical to him. Tertuliano, obsessed with finding his double, begins a search that leads him to confront questions about his identity, individuality, and what it means to be unique.
José Saramago won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. El hombre duplicado was originally published in 2002 under the title O homem duplicado.
For readers of contemporary fiction and magical realism interested in the novels of Nobel laureate José Saramago.
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."
