by José Saramago · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789505118007
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In 'The Double', José Saramago presents us with a disturbing reflection on identity and individuality. The plot follows a history teacher who discovers a man exactly like him, triggering a series of events that explore the limits of perception and reality. With his characteristic style, Saramago weaves a fascinating narrative that invites us to question the nature of existence and the search for oneself in an increasingly complex world.
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."
