by José Saramago · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466328203
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«El hombre duplicado» is the novel by José Saramago, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Tertuliano Máximo Afonso discovers at thirty-eight that a man identical to him, with no blood tie, lives in his city. The novel reflects on identity and singularity: what defines us as unique individuals and whether it would be possible to take our double's place without loved ones noticing.
The novel was originally published in Portuguese as «O homem duplicado». The 2014 edition belongs to the Formato Grande collection from Punto de Lectura.
It is the novel on which the movie Enemy, by Denis Villeneuve, is based, and is aimed at readers of contemporary fiction.
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."
